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Les Huguenots : the manuscript facsimiles / Giacomo Meyerbeer ; introduced and edited by Robert Letellier.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.
Contributor:
Letellier, Robert.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1004 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This huge exploration of faith, tolerance, hatred, extermination, love, loyalty, self-sacrifice and hope in despair, is the first panel of a central diptych on the Reformation, and the heart of the wider tetralogy of Meyerbeer's grand operas, where issues of power, religion and love are examined in a variety of modes. For five years after the sensational première of Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer was thought to be resting on his laurels. Instead, he was drudging over a gigantic drama, partly ada...
Contents:
CONTENTS; Act 1; Ouverture; [Introduction]; Morceau d'ensemble et Entrée de Raoul); [Orgie]; Récitatif; Scène et Romance (Raoul); Scène et Coral (Marcel); Scène et Chanson (Marcel); Récitatif; Morceau d'ensemble; Récitatif; Final; [Entrée du Page]; [Stretta]; Act 2; Entr'acte et Air (Marguerite de Valois); [Quartet]; [Cabaletta]; Récitatif; Choeur des baigneuses; Récitatif; Choeur [de bandeau]; Récitatif et Duo (Raoul et Marguerite de Valois); Récitatif; Récitatif et Entrée de la cour; Final; Act 3; Entr'acte; [Choeur des promeneurs]; Couplet militaire des soldats huguenots; [Litanie]
Ronde des Bohemiennes[Ballet]; Récitatif (après l'air de St. Bris); [Mouvement de l'air de St Bris]; Le Couvre-feu; Récitatif; Scène et Duo (Marcel et Valentine); Récitatif; Septour du Duel; Récitatif; Choeur de la dispute; Récitatif; Final; [Stretta]; [Supplement: banda]; Act 4; Entr'acte et Récitatif [et Duo]; [Récitatif]; [Duo] (Valentine et Raoul); Conjuration et Bénédiction des Poignards (Morceau d'Ensemble); Duo final; Act 5; Entr'acte et Ballet; [Ballet]; Récitatif et Air; [Air]; Scène et Trio (Marcel, Raoul, Valentine); [Interrogatoire]; [Vision]; Scène finale; [Supplément]
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
ISBN:
1-282-02974-6
9786612029745
1-4438-0093-7
OCLC:
827209395

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