The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

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Edited by David Charlton, Royal Holloway, University of London

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2011
Print publication year:: 2003
Online ISBN:: 9781139002127
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521641180

Subjects:: Music, Opera, Music: General Interest
Collection:: The Cambridge Companions to Music
Series:: Cambridge Companions to Music

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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.

‘… contains more information about its subject than any previous publication in English. For the serious lover of opera, as well as for the cultural historian, this is not only an impressive collection but one that will be dipped into for many years.’

Source: Contemporary Review

‘… a book, that deserves no recommendation lower than the very high one conferred by its own scholarship.’

Source: Gramophone

‘This collection of 19 essays offers a thematic survey of the genre … although written largely by academics, this absorbing book is refreshingly free of academic jargon. Its contributors obviously share a love of the subject and are keen to share their enthusiasm. It will appeal to anyone who enjoys opera.’

Source: Classical Music

‘Charlton’s book is well-illustrated (copious music examples) and annotated and has been seen through the press with agreeable accuracy. It reads well, is an invaluable reference work and should have the English language to itself for many a long year.’

Source: BBC Music Magazine

'This is a comprehensive and extensive book. Anyone needing to study grand opera should ensure that they have it to hand. It also provides superb background reading if you want to explore the operas of Meyerbeer et al.'

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Frontmatter
pp i-xxii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-18

Part I - The resourcing of grand opera

2 - The ‘machine’ and the state
pp 19-42

3 - Fictions and librettos
pp 43-57

4 - The spectacle of the past in grand opera
pp 58-75

5 - The chorus
pp 76-92

6 - Dance and dancers
pp 93-107

7 - Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828–1849
pp 108-128

Part II - Revaluation and the twenty-first century

8 - Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera
pp 129-146

Part III - Grand operas for Paris

9 - La Muette and her context
pp 147-167

10 - Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera
pp 168-188

11 - Meyerbeer: Robert Ie Diable and Les Huguenots
pp 189-207

12 - Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L'Africaine
pp 208-232

13 - The grand operas of Fromental Halévy
pp 233-257

14 - From Rossini to Verdi
pp 258-290

15 - After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory
pp 291-318

Part IV - Transformations of grand opera

16 - Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera
pp 319-343

17 - Grand opera in Russia: fragments of an unwritten history
pp 344-365

18 - Grand opera among the Czechs
pp 366-382

19 - Italian opera
pp 383-402

20 - Grand opera in Britain and the Americas
pp 403-422

Notes
pp 423-469

Select bibliography
pp 470-475

Index
pp 476-496

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