Contributor
Charlton, David, 1946-
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxxi, 496 p. : illus. ; 26 cm.
Note:The 'machine' and the state / Hervé Lacombe. - Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White. - The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams. - The chorus / James Parakilas. - Dance and dancers / Marian Smith. - Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart. - Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera / David Pountney. - La Muette and her context / Sarah Hibberd. - Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera / Herbert Schneider. - Meterbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots / Matthias Brzoska. - Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L"Africaine / John H. Roberts. - The grand operas of Fromental Halévy / Diana R. Hallman. - From Rossini to Verdi / M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet. - After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory / Steven Huebner. - Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grnad opera / Thomas Grey. - Grand opera in Russia: fragments of an unwritten history / Marina Frolova-Walker. - Grand opera among the Czechs / Jan Smaczny. - Italian opera / Fiamma Nicolodi. - Grand opera in Britain and the Americas / Sarah Hibberd.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 470-475) and index.
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