Grand opera; the story of the world's leading opera houses and personalities. by Gishford, Anthony

French grand opera; an art and a business, by Crosten, William L. 1909-

The world treasury of grand opera; its triumphs, trials, and great personalities. by Marek, George R. 1902-1987

The Cambridge companion to grand opera /

Table of Contents: “…The resourcing of grand operas. The 'machine' and the state / Hervé Lacombe -- Fictions and librettos / Nicholas White -- The spectacle of the past in grand opera / Simon Williams -- The chorus / James Parakilas -- Dance and dancers / Marian Smith -- Roles, reputations, shadows : singers at the Opéra, 1828-1849 / Mary Ann Smart.…”

A grand strategy : the scenario for saving the Grand Opera House, Wilmington, Delaware / by Stoddard, Robert

Subjects: “…Wilmington, Delaware. Grand Opera House and Masonic Temple.…”

The Met : one hundred years of grand opera / by Mayer, Martin, 1928-

The nation's image : French grand opera as politics and politicized art / by Fulcher, Jane F.

A hundred years of grand opera in New York, 1825-1925 : a record of performances / by Mattfeld, Julius, 1893-1968

Music & the making of a new South / by Campbell, Gavin James

Table of Contents: “…Grand Opera -- The colored music festival -- The Georgia old-time fiddling Contest…”

Four-square. by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

Table of Contents: “…--The apprentice.--Grand opera.--The Bradlock chest.--Sunset at sixteen.…”

Opera in context : essays on historical staging from the late Renaissance to the time of Puccini /

Table of Contents: “…Douglas Bomberger -- Paradise found : the Salle Le Peletier and French grand opera / by Karin Pendle and Stephen Wilkins -- Verdi's operas and Giuseppe Bertoja's designs at the Gran teatro La Fenice, Venice ; Richard Wagner and his search for the ideal theatrical space / by Evan Baker -- Realism on the opera stage : Belasco, Puccini, and the California sunset / by Helen M. …”

Drama and the world of Richard Wagner / by Borchmeyer, Dieter

Table of Contents: “…Love's madness, fairy-tale enchantment, and a Sicilian carnival : Die Hochzeit, Die Feen, and Das Liebesverbot -- On the uses and disadvantages of history for the music drama-grand opera : Die hohe Braut, Rienzi, and their consequences -- The transformations of Ahasuerus : The flying Dutchman and his metamorphoses -- Venus in exile : Tannhüuser between romanticism and young Germany -- Lohengrin : the mythical palimpsest of Wagner's last romantic opera -- Love and objectification in the music drama : Tristan's Isolde and her sisters -- Nuremberg as an aesthetic state : Die Meistersinger, an image and counterimage of history -- The myth of the beginning and end of history : Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Redemption and apocatastasis : Parsifal and the religion of the late Wagner -- An encounter between two anomalies : King Ludwig II and Wagner -- Wagner and Bismarck : an epoch-making nonrelationship -- Two-faced passion : Nietzsche's critique of Wagner -- Parallel action : Thomas Mann's response to Wagner -- The disinherited heir to the throne : Franz Wilhelm Beidler, Wagner's "lost grandson," a postlude.…”

Mozart at the gateway to his fortune : serving the Emperor, 1788-1791 / by Wolff, Christoph

Table of Contents: “…; More than an Egyptian opera ; The language of "grand opera" -- "The higher pathetic style of church music" and the Requiem. …”

Life of Rossini, by Stendhal, 1783-1842

Table of Contents: “…Of the quality of admiration in France, or An essay concerning grand opera -- 25. Of the two enthusiasts -- 26. Mose in Egitto -- 27. …”

The perversity of things : Hugo Gernsback on media, tinkering, and scientifiction / by Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967

Table of Contents: “…Sound -- Hearing Through Your Teeth (1916) -- Grand Opera by Wireless (1919) -- The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920) -- The "Pianorad" (1926) -- Part VII. …”