The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

• Frontmatter
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• pp. i-xxii

• 1 - Introduction by David Charlton
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• pp. 1-18

Part I - The resourcing of grand opera

• 2 - The ‘machine’ and the state by Hervé Lacombe
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• pp. 19-42

• 3 - Fictions and librettos by Nicholas White
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• pp. 43-57

• 4 - The spectacle of the past in grand opera by Simon Williams
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• pp. 58-75

• 5 - The chorus by James Parakilas
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• pp. 76-92

• 6 - Dance and dancers by Marian Smith
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• pp. 93-107

• 7 - Roles, reputations, shadows: singers at the Opéra, 1828–1849 by Mary Ann Smart
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• pp. 108-128

Part II - Revaluation and the twenty-first century

• 8 - Directing grand opera: Rienzi and Guillaume Tell at the Vienna State Opera by David Pountney
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• pp. 129-146

Part III - Grand operas for Paris

• 9 - La Muette and her context by Sarah Hibberd
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• pp. 147-167

• 10 - Scribe and Auber: constructing grand opera by Herbert Schneider
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• pp. 168-188

• 11 - Meyerbeer: Robert Ie Diable and Les Huguenots by Matthias Brzoska
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• pp. 189-207

• 12 - Meyerbeer: Le Prophète and L'Africaine by John H. Roberts
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• pp. 208-232

• 13 - The grand operas of Fromental Halévy by Diana R. Hallman
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• pp. 233-257

• 14 - From Rossini to Verdi by M. Elizabeth and C. Bartlet
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• pp. 258-290

• 15 - After 1850 at the Paris Opéra: institution and repertory by Steven Huebner
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• pp. 291-318

Part IV - Transformations of grand opera

• 16 - Richard Wagner and the legacy of French grand opera by Thomas Grey
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• pp. 319-343

• 17 - Grand opera in Russia: fragments of an unwritten history by Marina Frolova-Walker
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• pp. 344-365

• 18 - Grand opera among the Czechs by Jan Smaczny
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• pp. 366-382

• 19 - Italian opera by Fiamma Nicolodi
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• pp. 383-402

• 20 - Grand opera in Britain and the Americas by Sarah Hibberd
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• pp. 403-422

• Notes
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• pp. 423-469

• Select bibliography
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• pp. 470-475

• Index
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• pp. 476-496