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The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

Jonathan Cross; David Charlton
Cambridge University Press
9780521646833
0-521-64683-9

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,.

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Auber, Meyerbeer and Halevy 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.