Music, theater, and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914 / edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fauser, Annegret.

Everist, Mark.

Conference Name:

International symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair" (2004 : Chapel Hill, N.C., and Durham, N.C.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--France--Paris--19th century--Congresses.

Opera.

Opera--France--Paris--20th century--Congresses.

Musical theater--France--Paris--History--19th century--Congresses.

Musical theater.

Musical theater--France--Paris--History--20th century--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (450 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the "capital of the nineteenth century." The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicol

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Company at the Heart of the Operatic Institution: Chollet and the Changing Nature of Comic-Opera Role Types during the July Monarchy

2. Fromental Halévy within the Paris Opéra: Composition and Control

3. Systems Failure in Operatic Paris: The Acid Test of the Théâtre-Lyrique

4. Jacques Offenbach: The Music of the Past and the Image of the Present

5. Carvalho and the Opéra-Comique: L'art de se hâter lentement

6. Finding a Stage for French Opera

7. Auber's Gustave III: History as Opera

8. Analyzing Mise-en-Scène: Halévy's La juive at the Salle Le Peletier

9. Lucia Goes to Paris: A Tale of Three Theaters

10. Cette musique sans tradition: Wagner's Tannhäuser and Its French Critics

11. La sylphide and Les sylphides

12. Questions of Genre: Massenet's Les Érinnyes at the Théâtre-National-Lyrique

13. Carmen: Couleur locale or the Real Thing?

14. Spanish Local Color in Bizet's Carmen: Unexplored Borrowings and Transformations

15. La princesse paysanne du Midi

Appendix: A Documentary Overview of Musical Theaters in Paris, 1830-1900

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Rev. papers from the international symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair", held in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., Sept. 24-26, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612445569

9781282445567

1282445561

9780226239286

0226239284

OCLC:

593222236