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By illuminating the working of one of the most prominent opera houses of the period, Everist reveals how the opera scene in Paris shaped the history of opera.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Tables
Music Examples
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: The Institution
1.Un délassement honnête et instructif: The City and Music Drama in Restoration Paris
2. L’obligation de jouer le répertoire du premier ordre: Repertory, Infrastructure and Management at the Odéon
3. Cet ensemble si harmonieux et si parfait: The Odéon’s Personnel
4. La férule sévère et souvent capricieuse: Control and Consumption
Part Two: The Repertory
5. Une heure à l’opéra-comique: Occasional Works
6. Rendre service à notre scène lyrique: The Pasticcio
7. Le fruit défendu: Opéra Comique and the French Tradition
8. Les heureux étrangers: Italian Music Drama
9. Une leçon de morale: German Music Drama
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. He is the author of French Motets in the Thirteenth Century: Music, Poetry, and Genre (1994) and Polyphonic Music in Thirteenth-Century France (1989), as well as editor of three of the volumes in the series Le Magnus liber organi de Notre-Dame de Paris.
Summary
Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life is explored in this history of the Paris Odeon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. The book traces the complete arc of the Odeon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure.
