Operetta. Volume II : a sourcebook / Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Letellier, Robert Ignatius, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operetta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (712 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Operetta developed in the second half of the 19th century from the French opéra-comique and the more lighthearted German Singspiel. As the century progressed, the serious concerns of mainstream opera were sustained and intensified, leaving a gap between opéra-comique and vaudeville that necessitated a new type of stage work. Jacques Offenbach, son of a Cologne synagogue cantor, established himself in Paris with his series of opéras-bouffes. The popular success of this individual new form of entertainment light, humorous, satirical and also sentimental led to the emergence of operetta as a sepa

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

Includes discographies and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4438-8425-1

OCLC:

951223713