The operas of Rameau : genesis, staging, reception /: genesis, staging, reception. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson.
• Editors: Sadler, Graham; Thompson, Shirley J
• Contents: Part I – Factions and Rivalry 1 A little-known contribution to the Lulliste-Ramiste dispute: Jean Galli Bibiena’s Mémoires et aventures de monsieur de *** (1735); Francesca Pagani 2 Destouches and Collin de Blamont: two surintendants in the face of the Ramiste threat; Françoise Escande and Benoît Dratwicki 3 Rameau versus Mondonville: the construction of a post-Lullian musical identity in France; Thierry Favier ; Part II – Librettos: Gestation, Attributions, Interpretation 4 Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Art d’aimer: music and eroticism in the Age of Enlightenment; Raphaëlle Legrand 5 Re-assessing attributions to Louis de Cahusac of the librettos of Rameau’s Io, Zéphire and Nélée et Mirthis; Thomas Soury 6 The Triumph of Generosity, or ‘Let’s Make an Opera-Ballet’; Roger Savage 7 New light on the genesis of the ill-fated opera Linus by La Bruère and Rameau; Marie Demeilliez ; Part III – Borrowings and Creative Renewal 8 A cluster of allusions to Vivaldi’s Le quattro stagioni in Rameau’s ‘Anacréon’ (1757); Graham Sadler 9 Recreating Rameau: J.-S. Mangot and his role in Parma; Margaret Butler 10 An anonymous Messe des morts on themes by Rameau and Mondonville; Thomas Leconte 11 ‘Objet d’étude et de curiosité’: Candeille’s Castor et Pollux and its audiences, 1791–1815; R. J. Arnold ; Part IV – Production, Performance and Criticism 12 The impact of human and material contingencies on artistic creation: the case of Rameau’s Les Indes galantes; Laura Naudeix 13 Staging time and space in Rameau’s tragédies en musique; Lois Rosow 14 Stage sets and music in Rameau’s operas; Rémy-Michel Trotier 15 Do Rameau’s dances ‘impose physical movement’? A collaborative exploration; Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Hubert Hazebroucq 16 Through the Mercure’s lens: mid-eighteenth-century acting styles and vocal aesthetics at the Paris Opéra; Thomas Green ; Part V – Discography 17 Rameau’s operas on disc; Patrick Florentin
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 780.92; Opera -- France -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317022299; 9781317022305; 9781315554990
• Related ISBNs: 9781472479266
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