Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris

by Mark Everist

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 and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this contributed to an artistic environment that had musicians from Italian- and German-speaking states beating a path to the doors of the Acad mie Royale de Musique,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138375489
• ISBN13: 9781138375482
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.