Meyerbeer and Grand opéra from the July monarchy to the present / edited by Mark Everist.

Other author Everist, Mark, editor, author.
Format Book
PublicationTurnhout : Brepols, ©2016.
Descriptionxxiii, 498 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSpeculum musicae ; volume XXVIII
Speculum musicae ; v. 28. ^A533566
Contents Guns and roses: Meyerbeer now and then / Mark Everist -- Meyerbeer: the key works. Il debutto italiano di Meyerbeer: nuovi documenti su Romilda e Costanza (Padova 1817) / Francesco Bertini ; Dance and urban reality: Meyerbeer, modernity and ballet aesthetics / Stephanie Schroedter -- From the boulevard to the Opéra and back again: Meyerbeer's Robert le diable / Mia Tootill ; Giacomo Myerbeer's Robert le diable and Hector Berlioz: re-inventing the orchestra for the Académie Royale de Musique / Jürgen Maehder ; Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots in Prague and Austrian censorship / Milan Pospís̆il ; Genèse et généalogie du 'Marcel de Meyerbeer'. Pour une dramaturgie alternative du troisième acte des Huguenots / Matthias Nikolaidis ; Wagner meyerbeeriano. Una ricognizione sull'influenza di Les Huguenots sul Rienzi / Maria Nice Costantino ; Grand opéra, réclame et produits dérivés: Le Prophète de Meyerbeer et le nonciorama / Guillaume Bordry ; "Sie ist Kapellmeister, Régisseur -- mit einem Wort, die Seele der Oper": Pauline Viardot and Le Prophète in London 1849 / Melanie Von Goldbeck ; Fidès / Fede: aspetti di una vocalità androgina / Marco Beghelli ; L'Atto di Fidès. Questioni di drammaturgia e segmentazione nel Prophète di Meyerbeer / Paulo Russo -- Musical and dramatic techniques. L'assimilation de Giacomo Meyerbeer par Richard Wagner: l'exemple des contrastes simultanés / Yaël Hêche ; Photographic images of French grand opéra: documentation of nineteenth-century theatrical production / Evan Baker ; Franco-Italian legacy in Giacomo Meyerbeer's Œuvre: Italian opera's formal structures and the reception of the French revolution / Maria Birbili ; Eugène Scribe and the Jardin des femmes convention / Helena Kopchick Spencer ; Meyerbeer, Halévy, and the Scribean libretto: correspondence and divergence / Diana R. Hallman ; Narrative pacing and flashback in Meyerbeer's recitatives / Laura Moeckli -- Performance and reception. Meyerbeer and the New Orleans French opera company in New York City, 1845: "How, therefore, could New York have remained behind?" / Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson ; "[...] il più grande artista di un periodo di transizione": Mazzini e Meyerbeer / Renato Ricco ; Meyerbeer and The hound of the Baskervilles / Mark Everist ; Ernst Krenek's Leben des Orest and the idea of a Meyerbeer renaissance in Weimar Republic Germany / John Gabriel ; Giacomo Meyerbeer et les grands opéras historiques français à l'Opéra de Paris entre 1915 et 1945 / Claire Paolacci.
General noteInternational conference proceedings.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Language13 English, 5 Italian, 4 French contributions.
Genre/formConference papers and proceedings.
LCCN 2016481668
ISBN9782503568423 cl.
ISBN2503568424 cl.
Standard identifier# 9782503568423

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