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Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three different and equally important eras of 19th century music. His works straddle the German Romantic sc
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Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti a
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This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. C
The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer
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But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, a
Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable
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Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opéra from the