The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Hal vy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.

Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/04/2003
Pages: 522
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.94lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.62w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780521646833

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2004 pg. 1478

About the Author
Charlton, David: - David Charlton is Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Gretry and the Growth of Opera-Comique (Cambridge, 1986), E. T. A. Hoffman's Musical Writings: Kreisleriana; The Poet and the Composer; Music Criticism (Cambridge, 1989) and most recently, French Opera 1730 1830 (2000).Charlton, David: - David Charlton is Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-Comique (Cambridge, 1986), E. T. A. Hoffman's Musical Writings: Kreisleriana; The Poet and the Composer; Music Criticism (Cambridge, 1989) and most recently, French Opera 1730-1830 (2000).

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