Ballet and opera in the age of Giselle / Marian Smith.
"Marian Smith recaptures a period in French musical theater when ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opera (from the 1830s through the 1840s), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genre...
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction: Music and the Story
- Ch. 2. A Family Resemblance
- Ch. 3. The Lighter Tone of Ballet-Pantomime
- Ch. 4. Ballet-Pantomime and Silent Language
- Ch. 5. Hybrid Works at the Opera
- Ch. 6. Giselle
- App. 1. Ballet-Pantomimes and Operas Produced at the Paris Opera, 1825-1850
- App. 2. The Giselle Libretto.