Music, the Market, and the Marvellous

Music, the Market, and the Marvellous
Author: Tommaso Sabbatini (Music historian)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2024
Genre: Musical theater
ISBN: 0198930933

Music, the market, and the marvellous" examines 'féerie', the French fairy play, in the last third of the nineteenth century. It is among the first book-length studies on the genre, the first in a language other than French, and the first from a musicological perspective. Sabbatini demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, 'féerie' was still thriving during the fin de siècle, giving rise to innovations such as composerly 'féerie' and scientific 'féerie'. The plays, the theatre industry, and urban geography are discussed together, as befits a commercial genre where the marvellous was shaped by the market. Recovering this forgotten - but once hugely influential - repertoire provides an occasion to rethink generic taxonomies of Parisian theatre and the ontology of nineteenth-century 'popular' theatre.

The Teatro Solís

The Teatro Solís
Author: Susana Salgado
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2003-07-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819565945

The first comprehensive history of the oldest major opera house in the Americas.

Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opéra-Comique, 1824-1856

Adolphe Adam, Master of the Opéra-Comique, 1824-1856
Author: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 734
Release: 2023-01-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1527590801

The composer Adolphe-Charles Adam (1803-1856) is known all over the world for the famous Christmas anthem ‘Minuit chrétiens’ (‘O Holy Night’). However, he wrote much more than just this. His ballet Giselle (1841) is the quintessence of mystical Romanticism and one of the most enduring works of the dance repertoire. Adam composed a series of ballets, principally for the Paris Opéra, establishing this genre as a serious and integral musical form. His last work was Le Corsaire (1856) which reaches sublime heights. However, Adam was just as famous as a composer for the lyric stage. With Boieldieu, Hérold and Auber, he forms one of the quartet of masters that represent the second school of that profoundly French genre of the opera-comique. The charming and elegant Le Chalet (1834) received over 1500 performances in Paris, and the exuberant and adorable Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) is still played on stages throughout the world. This study considers this gentle, unassuming composer’s life and work, examining his 42 operas and 14 ballets in the context of the vibrant musical scene in Paris during the decades 1820-1860.

Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas

Offenbach's Songs from the Great Operettas
Author: Jacques Offenbach
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486171485

Expert compilation of original sheet music features 38 popular songs from 14 operettas. Complete French texts to selections from Orpheé aux enfers, La belle Hélène, and other operettas, plus English translations.