French Grand Opera

Author : Jens Hesselager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315466430
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Opera Outside Paris written by Jens Hesselager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the works were originally written. In contrast, this volume takes account of a larger geographical and historical context, bringing the Europe-wide impact of the genre into focus. The book presents case studies including analyses of grand opera in small-town Germany and Switzerland; grand operas adapted for Scandinavian capitals, a cockney audience in London, and a court audience in Weimar; and Portuguese and Russian grand operas after the French model. Its overarching aim is to reveal how grand operas were used – performed, transformed, enjoyed and criticised, emulated and parodied – and how they became part of musical, cultural and political life in various European settings. The picture that emerges is complex and diversified, yet it also testifies to the interrelated processes of cultural and political change as bourgeois audiences, at varying paces and with local variations, increased their influence, and as discourses on language, nation and nationalism influenced public debates in powerful ways.

Author : William Loran Crosten
Publisher : New York, King's Crown P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Grand Opera, an Art and a Business written by William Loran Crosten and published by New York, King's Crown P. This book was released on 1948 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eugène Scribe and French Opera of the Nineteenth Century written by Karin Pendle and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Loran Crosten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Grand Opera written by William Loran Crosten and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521885620
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination written by Sarah Hibberd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.

Author : William L. Crosten
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Grand Opera written by William L. Crosten and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1972-01-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825895
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera written by David Charlton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 Companion is a fascinating and accessible exploration of the world of grand opera. Through this volume a team of scholars and writers on opera examine those important Romantic operas which embraced the Shakespearean sweep of tragedy, history, love in time of conflict, and the struggle for national self-determination. Rival nations, rival religions and violent resolutions are common elements, with various social or political groups represented in the form of operatic choruses. The book traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age, which exploited the world-renowned skills of Parisian stage-designers, artists, and dancers as well as singers. It analyses in detail the grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halévy, discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and also in the Czech lands, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume also includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.

Author : Jane Fulcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521529433
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Image written by Jane Fulcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.

Author : Vincent Giroud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300117653
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Opera written by Vincent Giroud and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brilliant overview of the history of French opera, scrupulously researched and eminently readable. The people, the politics, the scandalsûinformative and entertaining."-Richard Bonynge AO, CBE --

Author : David Charlton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Opera, 1730-1830 written by David Charlton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of these collected essays date from 1992 onwards, three of them having been specially expanded for this volume. Drawing on recent archival research and new musicological theory, they investigate distinctive qualities in French opera from early opéra comique to early grand opera. 'Media' is interpreted in terms of both narrative systems and practical theatre resources. One group of essays identifies narrative systems in 'minuet-scenes', in the diegetic romance, and in special uses of musical motives. Another group concerns the theory and æsthetics of opera, in which uses of metaphor help us interpret audience reception. A third group focuses on orchestral and staging practices, brought together in a new theory of the 'melodrama model' linking various genres from the 1780s with the world of the 1820s. French opera's relation with literature and politics is a continuing theme, explored in writings on prison scenes, Ossian, and public-private dramaturgy in grand opera. David Charlton has written widely on French music and opera topics for over 25 years. The selection of his articles presented here focuses on the period 1730-1830 when Paris was a hotbed of influential ideas in music and music theatre, with many of these ideas taken up by foreign composers. This volume assesses the French contribution to the development of Classical and Romantic styles and genres which has hitherto not received the attention it deserves.