| Series |
Princeton studies in opera
Princeton studies in opera. ^A273667
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| Contents |
Introduction: Music and the story -- A family resemblance -- The lighter tone of ballet-pantomime -- Ballet-pantomime and silent language -- Hybrid works at the opera -- Giselle -- Appendix 1. Ballet-pantomimes and operas produced at the Paris Opera, 1825-1850 ; Appendix 2. The Giselle libretto. |
| Abstract |
This book recaptures a period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s), the author offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opera during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. |
| General note | Includes libretto for Giselle in French with English translation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-300) and index. |
| LCCN | 00060622 |
| ISBN | 0691049947 |
