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The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
Cambridge Companions to Music
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Chronology
1 Introduction
Part I • The resourcing of grand opera
2 The ‘machine’ and the state
3 Fictions and librettos
4 The spectacle of the past in grand opera
5 The chorus
6 Dance and dancers
7 Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828–1849
Part II • Revaluation and the twenty-first century
8 Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera
Part III • Grand operas for Paris
9 La Muette and her context
10 Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera
11 Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable and Les Huguenots
12 Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L’Africaine
13 The grand operas of Fromental Halévy
14 From Rossini to Verdi
15 After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory
Part IV • Transformations of grand opera
16 Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera
17 Grand opera in Russia: fragments of an unwritten history
18 Grand opera among the Czechs
19 Italian opera
20 Grand opera in Britain and the Americas
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
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