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The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The "keys" provided by Herve Lacombe in this richly informed book
open the door to understanding the essence of nineteenth-century
French lyric theater. Lacombe illuminates the diverse elements that
constitute opera by focusing his investigation around three main
categories: composition and production; words, music, and drama;
and the interaction of society, genre, and aesthetics.
Lacombe chooses Bizet's "Pearl Fishers" (1863) as the exemplar of
French opera that combines tradition and innovation. He uses "Pearl
Fishers" as a paradigmatic point of reference for exploring
questions of genesis, style, and aesthetic in other
nineteenth-century French operatic works. French opera was a social
art, he writes, and looping between past and future, between
tradition and innovation, it achieved the seemingly impossible
union of two antithetical aspects of Romanticism: the taste for
theatricality and the desire for intimacy.
The voices of contemporary witnesses are heard throughout Lacombe's
book. He makes abundant use of the writings of such
musician-critics as Berlioz, Reyer, and Saint-Saens and also draws
on the works of many French writers, including Stendhal, Balzac,
Baudelaire, and Zola. Illustrations showing costume sketches,
scenery, posters, paintings, photographs, and magazine articles are
attractive complements to discussions of particular operas.
Together with Edward Schneider's accessible translation, the
illustrations make this well-rounded and original study a trove of
information for both music scholars and French historians.
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