Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-424) and index.
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Part 1. Institutions. The company at the heart of the operatic institution: Chollet and the changing nature of Comic-Opera role types during the July Monarchy / Olivier Bara ; Fromental Halévy within the Paris Opéra: composition and control / Diana R. Hallman ; Systems failure in operatic Paris: the acid test of the Théâtre Lyrique / Katharine Ellis ; Jacques Offenbach: the music of the past and the image of the present / Mark Everist ; Carvalho and the Opéra-Comique: l'art de se hâter lentement / Lesley Wright ; Finding a stage for French opera / David Grayson -- Part 2. Cultural transfer. Auber's Gustave III: history as opera / Sarah Hibberd ; Analyzing mise-en-scène: Halévy's La juive at the Salle le Peletier / Arnold Jacobshagen ; Lucia goes to Paris: a tale of three theaters / Rebecca Harris-Warrick ; Cette musique sans tradition: Wagner's Tannhäuser and its French critics / Annegret Fauser ; La sylphide and Les sylphides / Marian Smith ; Questions of genre: Massenet's Les érynnies at the Théâtre-National-Lyrique / Peter Lamothe -- Part 3. The Midi and Spain, or Autour de Carmen. Carmen: couleur locale or the real thing? / Kerry Murphy ; Spanish local color in Bizet's Carmen: unexplored borrowings and transformations / Ralph P. Locke ; La princesse paysanne du Midi / Steven Huebner -- Appendix: a documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830 / Alicia C. Levin.
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Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the "capital of the nineteenth century." The fullest account available of this artistic ferment and its international impact, Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer explores the diverse institutions that shaped Parisian music and extended its influence across Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The contributors to this volume, who work in fields ranging from literature to theater to musicology, focus on the city's musical t.
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Music, theater, and cultural transfer.
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9780226239279
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Musical theater-- France-- Paris-- History-- 19th century, Congresses.
Musical theater-- France-- Paris-- History-- 20th century, Congresses.
Opera-- France-- Paris-- 19th century, Congresses.
Opera-- France-- Paris-- 20th century, Congresses.
MUSIC-- Genres & Styles-- Opera.
Musical theater.
Opera.
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France, Paris.
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Everist, Mark.
Fauser, Annegret.
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International Symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair"(2004 :, Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C.)