Music, theater and cultural transfer : Paris, 1830-1914 / Edited by Annegret Fauser and Mark Everist

Rev. papers from the international symposium "The Institutions of Opera in Paris from the July Revolution to the Dreyfus Affair", held in Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., Sept. 24-26, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-424) and index.

Part 1. Institutions. The company at the heart of the operatic institution: Chollet and the changing nature of Comic-Opera role types during the July Monarchy / Olivier Bara ; Fromental Halévy within the Paris Opéra: composition and control / Diana R. Hallman ; Systems failure in operatic Paris: the acid test of the Théâtre Lyrique / Katharine Ellis ; Jacques Offenbach: the music of the past and the image of the present / Mark Everist ; Carvalho and the Opéra-Comique: l'art de se hâter lentement / Lesley Wright ; Finding a stage for French opera / David Grayson -- Part 2. Cultural transfer. Auber's Gustave III: history as opera / Sarah Hibberd ; Analyzing mise-en-scène: Halévy's La juive at the Salle le Peletier / Arnold Jacobshagen ; Lucia goes to Paris: a tale of three theaters / Rebecca Harris-Warrick ; Cette musique sans tradition: Wagner's Tannhäuser and its French critics / Annegret Fauser ; La sylphide and Les sylphides / Marian Smith ; Questions of genre: Massenet's Les érynnies at the Théâtre-National-Lyrique / Peter Lamothe -- Part 3. The Midi and Spain, or Autour de Carmen. Carmen: couleur locale or the real thing? / Kerry Murphy ; Spanish local color in Bizet's Carmen: unexplored borrowings and transformations / Ralph P. Locke ; La princesse paysanne du Midi / Steven Huebner -- Appendix: a documentary overview of musical theaters in Paris, 1830 / Alicia C. Levin.