The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera Hardback
Edited by David Charlton
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Music series
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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 Halevy, 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:518 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2003
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- ISBN:9780521641180
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:518 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/09/2003
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- ISBN:9780521641180