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Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle /Marian Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, (c)2000.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 306 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400832477
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • ML1727 .B355 2000
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Introduction: Music and the Story -- A Family Resemblance -- The Lighter Tone of Ballet-Pantomime -- Ballet-Pantomime and Silent Language -- Hybrid Works at the Opera -- Giselle -- Ballet-Pantomimes and Operas Produced at the Paris Opera, 1825-1850 -- The Giselle Libretto.
Review: "Marian Smith recaptures a period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera - and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general - may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opera during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres."--Jacket.
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Includes libretto for Giselle in French with English translation.

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Introduction: Music and the Story -- A Family Resemblance -- The Lighter Tone of Ballet-Pantomime -- Ballet-Pantomime and Silent Language -- Hybrid Works at the Opera -- Giselle -- Ballet-Pantomimes and Operas Produced at the Paris Opera, 1825-1850 -- The Giselle Libretto.

"Marian Smith recaptures a period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera - and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general - may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opera during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres."--Jacket.

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