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Gretry and the Growth of Opera-Comique (Book)
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Gretry and the Growth of Opera-Comique (Book)
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Originally published in 1986, this book is a major study in English
on Gretry and opera-comique. Opera-comique is the operatic genre
that lies behind The Magic Flute and Fidelio. David Charlton's
important study examines the genre in the period before the French
Revolution, considering the literary sources, performance
conditions, contemporary aesthetic criteria and statistics which
reveal the popularity of such works at that time. Dr Charlton takes
Gretry, composer of some thirty-four operas-comiques, and a
fascinating personality of his day, as the central figure of his
study, drawing on Gretry's extensive Memoires and other writing,
not available in English translation, for the biographical
sections. Twenty-four of Gretry's operas-comiques are given a
chapter each, with plot summary, critical discussion, summary of
different versions and history of performance in Paris. The book
can thus be used as a reference tool or read as a comprehensive
survey of opera-comique between 1768 and 1791.
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