Stage music & cultural transfer
Subtitle: Paris, 1830-1914
By: edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist.
Contributors: Fauser, Annegret.; Everist, Mark.; International symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair" (2004 : Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C.)
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9780226239262; 9780226239279
Subjects: Opera -- France -- Paris -- 19th century -- Congresses; Opera -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- Congresses; Musical theater -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Musical theater -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Stage music and cultural transfer
Notes: Rev. papers from the international symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair", held in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., Sept. 24-26, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Institutions. The company at the heart of the operatic institution: Chollet and the changing nature of Comic-Opera role types during the July Monarchy / Olivier Bara ; Fromental Halévy within the Paris Opéra: composition and control / Diana R. Hallman ; Systems failure in operatic Paris: the acid test of the Théâtre Lyrique /  Katharine Ellis ; Jacques Offenbach: the music of the past and the image of the present / Mark Everist ; Carvalho and the Opéra-Comique: l'art de se hâter lentement / Lesley Wright ; Finding a stage for French opera / David Grayson; title: Part 2. Cultural transfer. Auber's Gustave III: history as opera / Sarah Hibberd ; Analyzing mise-en-scène: Halévy's La juive at the Salle le Peletier / Arnold Jacobshagen ; Lucia goes to Paris: a tale of three theaters / Rebecca Harris-Warrick ; Cette musique sans tradition: Wagner's Tannhäuser and its French critics / Annegret Fauser ; La sylphide and Les sylphides / Marian Smith ; Questions of genre: Massenet's Les érynnies at the Théâtre-National-Lyrique / Peter Lamothe; title: Part 3. The Midi and Spain, or Autour de Carmen. Carmen: couleur locale or the real thing? / Kerry Murphy ; Spanish local color in Bizet's Carmen: unexplored borrowings and transformations / Ralph P. Locke ; La princesse paysanne du Midi / Steven Huebner; title: Appendix: a documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830 / Alicia C. Levin.