French opera : a short history / by Giroud, Vincent

Table of Contents: “…1 From the Origins to Lully -- 2 From Lully to Rameau -- 3 The Age of Rameau -- 4 Gluck to Revolution -- 5 Revolution to Romanticism -- 6 The Age of Grand Opera -- 7 French Opera under the Second Empire -- 8 From Carmen to Pelleas -- 9 From the Belle Epoque to the Annees Folles -- 10 Crisis and Renewal.…”
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French opera, 1730-1830 : meaning and media / by Charlton, David, 1946-

French opera at the fin de siècle : Wagnerism, nationalism, and style / by Huebner, Steven

Tommaso Traetta and the fusion of Italian and French opera in Parma / by Loomis, George W.

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Music in the romantic period : an anthology with commentary /

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Inventing New Orleans : writings of Lafcadio Hearn / by Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

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Classical music : the era of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / by Downs, Philip G.

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Aesthetics of opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 / by Thomas, Downing A.

Table of Contents: “…pt. I. French opera in the shadow of tragedy -- 1. Song as performance and the emergence of French opera -- 2. …”

History of music in sound. Vol. 7: The symphonic outlook, 1745-1790.

Table of Contents: “…[pt.1] French opera. Singspiel. Opâera comique. Opera seria. …”

The fortress of Sorrento: a petit historical drama, in two acts. by Noah, M. M. 1785-1851

Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. …”
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Desire and pleasure in seventeenth-century music / by McClary, Susan

Table of Contents: “…The music of pleasure and desire -- The expansion principle -- Composites, or the still-divided subject -- Soprano as fetish : professional singers in Early Modern Italy -- Gender ambiguities and erotic excess in the operas of Cavalli -- Libidinous theology -- Straining belief : the toccata -- The social history of a groove : chacona, ciaccona, chaconne, and the Chaconne -- Dancing about power, architecture about dancing -- Temporality and ideology : qualities of motion in seventeenth-century French music -- The dragon cart : the femme fatale in seventeenth-century French opera -- Toward consolidation.…”

Popular opera in eighteenth-century France : music and entertainment before the Revolution / by Charlton, David, 1946-

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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Fulcher -- Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cultural role in the 1920s / Jane F. …”
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The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”
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The ultimate art : essays around and about opera / by Littlejohn, David, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”

Grand opera : the story of the Met / by Affron, Charles, Affron, Mirella Jona, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : bel canto -- Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque -- Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera -- In the age of new media, 2006-2013.…”
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Carmen / by Fisher, Burton D.

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