
Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune
Mark Everist(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2018
Book
Hardback
488 pages
978-1-138-06516-1 (ISBN)
Description
Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production, with new productions of works not heard since the nineteenth century taking their place in the modern repertory.
This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opera at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opera comique, operette, comedie-vaudeville and melodrame, for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera, and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours, the Italian-speaking states, and of its most problematic partners, the German-speaking states, especially the music of Weber and Wagner.
Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume's overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange, genre and institution, this collection brings together twelve of the author's previously published articles and essays, fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time.
This awakening of enthusiasm has come at something of a price. Selling French opera as little more than an important precursor to Verdi or Wagner has entailed a focus on works produced exclusively for the Paris Opera at the expense of the vast range of other types of stage music produced in the capital: opera comique, operette, comedie-vaudeville and melodrame, for example. The first part of this book therefore seeks to reintroduce a number of norms to the study of stage music in Paris: to re-establish contexts and conventions that still remain obscure. The second and third parts acknowledge Paris as an importer and exporter of opera, and its focus moves towards the music of its closest neighbours, the Italian-speaking states, and of its most problematic partners, the German-speaking states, especially the music of Weber and Wagner.
Prefaced by an introduction that develops the volume's overriding intellectual drivers of cultural exchange, genre and institution, this collection brings together twelve of the author's previously published articles and essays, fully updated for this volume and translated into English for the first time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 20 s/w Zeichnungen, 31 s/w Tabellen, 50 s/w Abbildungen
31 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Halftones, black and white; 50 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
895 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-06516-1 (9781138065161)
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Person
Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on the music of Western Europe in the period 1150-1330, opera in France in the nineteenth century, Mozart, reception theory and historiography. He is the author of Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century France (1989), French Motets in the Thirteenth Century (1994), Music Drama at the Paris Odeon, 1824-1828 (2002), Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris (2005) and Mozart's Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture (2013) as well as the editor of three volumes of the Magnus Liber Organi for Editions de l'Oiseau-Lyre (2001-2003). In addition, he has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays. The recipient of the Solie (2010) and Slim (2011) awards of the American Musicological Society, he was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea in 2012. Everist was president of the Royal Musical Association from 2011-2017 and was elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2014. His monograph Discovering Medieval Song: Latin Poetry and Music in the Conductus was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018, as was The Cambridge History of Medieval Music, co-edited with Thomas Kelly. A monograph on the reception of Gluck in the nineteenth century has just been completed.
Content
Ouverture 1. 'The Music of Power: Parisian Opera and the Politics of Genre, 1806-1864' 2 .'Grand Opera - Petit Opera: Parisian Opera and Ballet from the Restoration to the Second Empire' 3. 'Jacques Offenbach: The Music of the Past and the Image of the Present' 4. 'The Operas of Francois-Auguste Gevaert: The Tour d'horizon' 5. 'Between Opera-Comique and Opera-National: Scribe, Vaez and Boisselot c1850' Premier Entr'acte 6. 'Beethoven and Rossini: Opera and Concert at the End of the Restoration' 7. ''Il n'y a qu'un Paris au monde, et j'y reviendrai planter mon drapeau!': Rossini's Second grand opera' 8. 'A Transalpine Comedy: L'elisir d'amore and Cultural Transfer' 9. 'Partners in Rhyme: Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaez, and Foreign Opera in Paris during the July Monarchy' Second Entr'acte 10. 'Castil-Blaze and the Reception of Weber in Paris, 1824-1857' 11. 'Gluck, Politics, and the Second Empire Press' 12. 'Wagner and Paris: The Case of Rienzi (1869)' Strette