| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE INSTITUTION; 1. Un délassement honnête et instructif-Music Drama in Restoration Paris; The City; The Maison du Roi; Music Drama in Paris; 2. L'obligation de jouer le répertoire du premier ordre-Repertory and Management at the Odéon; Regulating the Odéon; Claude Bernard; Frédéric du Petit-Méré; Thomas Sauvage; 3. Cet ensemble si harmonieux et si parfait-The Odéon's Personnel; Soloists; The Orchestra; Composers; Literary Collaborators; Patterns of Dispersal |
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4. La férule sévère et souvent capricieuse-Control and ConsumptionThe jury de lecture; Censorship; The Audience; Les chevaliers de lustre; Benefit Performances; Publishers; PART II: THE REPERTORY; 5. Une heure à l'opéra-comique-Occasional Works; Opening the Theater: Les trois genres; The Monarchy and the Theater; The Monarch's Name Day; Crowning Charles X; Command Performances; 6. Rendre service à notre scène lyrique-The Pasticcio; The Pasticcio in Paris; The 1826 Plan; Single-Composer Pasticci; Castil-Blaze; 7. Le fruit défendu-Opéra Comique and the French Tradition; The ancien répertoire |
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Opéra ComiqueBerlioz; French Origins of Odéon Compositions; 8. Les heureux étrangers-Italian Music Drama; Rossini; Meyerbeer; Mozart; 9. Une leçon de morale-German Music Drama; Weber; Beethoven; Viennese Musicians and the Kärntnertortheater; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Musik |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Odéon (Theater : Paris, France) -- History
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Odéon (Theater : Paris, France) |
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Opera -- France -- Paris -- 19th century
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
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Opera.
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Muziektheater.
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Muziektheaters.
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France -- Paris.
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Parijs.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520928909 |
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0520928903 |
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0585466289 |
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9780585466286 |
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9780520234451 |
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0520234456 |
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1597347647 |
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9781597347648 |
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1282356852 |
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9781282356856 |
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9786612356858 |
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6612356855 |
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