French opera libretti /

Subjects: “…Operas Librettos.…”

Les Huguenots / by Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle / by Smith, Marian Elizabeth

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Verdi and the French aesthetic : verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos ; French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 ; Episode: Design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- French melody in Verdi's operas. …”
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Verdi and the French aesthetic : verse, stanza, and melody in nineteenth-century opera / by Giger, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Rhythm and stanza in French and Italian librettos -- French and Italian melodic aesthetics and practice ca. 1830-1870 -- Episode : design, middleground rhythm, and phrase -- pt. …”
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Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864

French reimaginings of the ancient legend of Arion and the dolphin : (re)creations in art, words, music / by Hollard, Thoron, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Arion in visual artworks -- The European context -- Arion in French works -- Arion in French poetry -- Sceve -- Du Bartas -- Sieur d'Arion -- Saint-Amant -- Airs in a royal ballet: Chastillon -- Arion in cantatas -- Campra and Roy -- Le Bailly -- An opera libretto: Le Brun -- A complete opera: Matho and Fuzelier -- An act in an opera-ballet: Destouches and Roy -- Conclusion.…”
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Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle / by Smith, Marian Elizabeth

Francis Poulenc : music, art, and literature /

Table of Contents: “…Schmidt -- Poulenc and his patrons : social convergences / Myriam Chimènes -- In search of a libretto / Denis Waleckx -- Dialogues des Carmélites : the historical background, literary destiny and genesis of the opera / Claude Gendre -- A musical confession : Poulenc, Cocteau and La Voix humaine / Denis Waleckx -- Poulenc, Britten, Aldeburgh : a chronicle / Philip Reed -- Francis Poulenc : disc jockey / Lucie Kayas.…”

Ariane & Bluebeard : from fairy tale to comic book opera /

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Dance and drama in French baroque opera : a history / by Harris-Warrick, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…6 The Lighter Side of LullyLes Fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus; Cadmus et Hermione, Alceste, and Thésée; Le Carnaval; Psyché; Le Triomphe de l'Amour; Acis et Galatée; Part II The Rival Muses in the Age of Campra; 7 The Muses Take the Stage; Genre Terminology; Sources; Reading the Cast Lists in Librettos; 8 Thalie, Muse of Comedy; The Decade after Lully; "Italy" Comes to the Opéra; L'Europe galante (1697); Les Fêtes vénitiennes (1710); 9 Thalie Visits the Fairs; Appropriated Frames; Operatic Parodies; Dancing Master Scenes; The Masked Ball on Stage; Comic Simultaneity; "Fragments" as a Genre…”
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The sea on fire : Jean Barraqué / by Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24-

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The sea on fire : Jean Barraqué / by Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24-

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