Opera, liberalism, and antisemitism in nineteenth century France : the politics of Halévy's "La Juive" / Diana R. Hallman.
"This is the first comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835), a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist, Eugene Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy. Hallman explores the politicall...
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| Auteurs principaux: | Hallman, Diana R. |
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| Format: | Livre |
| Langue: | English |
| Publié: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002. |
| Édition: | 1. publ |
| Collection: | Cambridge studies in opera
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| Accès en ligne: | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=009936639&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| Résumé: | "This is the first comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835), a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist, Eugene Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy. 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, Jewish "emancipation" and acculturation, and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in French society."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Description matérielle: | XVII, 390 S. : Ill., Notenbeisp |
| ISBN: | 0521650860 |
