Eugene Scribe and French opera of the nineteenth century / by Karin Pendle.
| Author/creator | Pendle, Karin |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Ann Arbor, MI : UMI Research Press, 1977, ©1979. |
| Description | 627 pages : music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in musicology ; no. 6 Studies in musicology ; no. 6. ^A163772 |
| Contents | The life of Eugene Scribe -- Scribe and his collaborators -- The theatres of Scribe's Paris -- Scribe and the libretto: perspective -- The opera comique libretto before Scribe. Grétry's Zémire et Azor ; Grétry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion ; Lesueur's La Caverne ; Boieldieu's Béniowski -- A survey of Scribe's operas comiques. Auber's Le Maçon ; Auber's Fra Diavolo ; Vaudeville into libretto: Adam's Le Chalet ; Short story into libretto: Auber's Haydée ; Novel into libretto: Carafa's La Prison d'Edimbourg ; Several novels into libretto: Boieldieu's La Dame blanche ; How operas fail: the case of Auber's Le Timide -- Post-Scribe: Meilhac and Halevy -- The French opera libretto before Scribe. Grétry's Le Caravane du Caire ; Cherubini's Démofoon ; Catel's Sémiramis ; Etienne de Jouy: La Vestale and Les Bayadères -- The birth of grand opera -- Scribe's operas: an overview -- Auber's La Muette de Partici and opera comique -- La Muette and Guillaume Tell -- The transformation of a genre: Mayerbeer's Robert le Diable -- Comic opera and opera comique: Auber's Le Philtre -- The technique of grand opera and the transformation of literary models: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots -- Historical opera: Meyerbeer's Le Prophete -- French opera after Scribe: Barbier and Carre -- Stretto -- Appendices. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 599-618) and index. |
| LCCN | 79020451 |
| ISBN | 0835710041 : |
| ISBN | 9780835710046 |
| ISBN | 083571005X (pbk.) : |