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Author Everist, Mark

Title Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 / Mark Everist
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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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
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
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
Notes English
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Subject Odéon (Theater : Paris, France) -- History
SUBJECT Odéon (Theater : Paris, France) fast
Subject Opera -- France -- Paris -- 19th century
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
Opera
Muziektheater.
Muziektheaters.
France -- Paris
Parijs.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520928909
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9780520234451
0520234456
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9781597347648
1282356852
9781282356856
9786612356858
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