Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halévy's La Juive - Couverture rigide

Hallman, Diana R.

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ISBN 10 : 0521650860 ISBN 13 : 9780521650861

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Hallman Diana R

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive (Paris Opéra, 1835) is a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halévy. 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 and Jewish-Christian conflict in subject, setting and characterization, viewing the anticlerical thrust of its critique as a reminder of the historical abuses of an autocratic Church and State and as reflection of the era's liberal ideology. It also considers the portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary stereotypes and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in French society.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521650860
• ISBN 13: 9780521650861
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 410