National traditions in nineteenth-century opera. Italy, France, England and the Americas / Volume 1, (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Italy, France, England and the Americas
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Huebner.
• Other Names: Huebner, Steven
• Contents: Contexts. Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera / Fabrizio Della Seta ; Metaphors for Meyerbeer / Cormac Newark ; Italian romanticism and Italian opera : an essay in their affinities / Gary Tomlinson ; Verismo : origin, corruption and redemption of an operatic term / Andreas Giger ; Felice Romani, librettist by trade / Alessandro Roccatagliati ; Frederick Gye and 'The dreadful business of opera management' / Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel ; Opera audiences in Paris 1830-1870 / Steven Huebner ; Verdian opera burlesqued : a glimpse into mid-victorian theatrical culture / Roberta Montemorra Marvin -- Composition and analysis. History and works that have no history : reviving Rossini's Neapolitan operas / Philip Gossett ; La solita forma and the uses of convention / Harold S. Powers ; A key for chi? Tonal areas in Puccini / Roger Parker and Allan W. Atlas ; Tristan in the composition of Pelléas / Carolyn Abbate -- Criticism. Dormez donc, mes chers amours : Hérold's La somnambule and dream phenomena on the Parisian lyric stage / Sarah Hibberd ; TB sheets : love and disease in La traviata / Arthur Groos ; Masked balls / Ralph Hexter ; Return of the repressed : the prima donna from Hoffman's Tales to Offenbach's Contes / Heather Hadlock ; Smyth the anarchist : fin-de-siècle radicalism in The wreckers / Suzanne Robinson -- Performance. Knowing the score : Italian opera as work and play / Philip Gossett ; Ornamenting Verdi's arias : the continuity of a tradition / David Lawton ; La cantante delle passioni : Giuditta Pasta and the idea of operatic performance / Susan B. Rutherford ; The sea and the stars and the wastes of the desert / Roger Parker.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (566 pages)
• Subjects: 782.109034; Opera -- Italy -- 19th century; Opera -- France -- 19th century; Opera -- England -- 19th century; Opera -- United States -- 19th century; Opera; Oper -- Geschichte 19. Jh; Oper; England; France; Italy; United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351915854; 1351915851
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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