Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
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Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France by Diana R Hallman
This is the first critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist, Eugene Scribe, and conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Hal vy. Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera within the context of French social and cultural history. The book addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance, Jewish-Christian conflict, and also considers the portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary stereotypes and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in French society.
'… a useful piece of scholarship with excellent appendices …' History Today
'Hallman is successful in creating a vivid account of the complicated political and cultural diversity of mid-nineteenth-century Paris… a thoroughly researched and well-written text'. Nineteenth-Century Music Review
'Hallman is successful in creating a vivid account of the complicated political and cultural diversity of mid-nineteenth-century Paris… a thoroughly researched and well-written text'. Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Diana Hallman is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Kentucky. She is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (2003) edited by David Charlton, and has written articles and reviews concerning Halévy and the politics of French grand opéra, as well as an article on the librettist Ludovic Halévy, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1998. She was a featured speaker for the BBC's live broadcast of La Juive from the Vienna Staatsoper, 1999. Dr Hallman's research interests also include the history of American concert life and performance, and she is completing a book on turn-of-the-century Austrian-American pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521038812 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521038812 |
| Title | Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France |
| Author | Diana R Hallman |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Opera |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2007-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 412 |
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