Research Catalog

Title

Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable : the premier opéra romantique / by Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Author

Letellier, Robert Ignatius

Publication

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

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Details

Description

xv, 220 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

Robert le Diable

Subject

• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The Origins 3 -- 2 The Sources 15 -- The Plot 17 -- 3 The Libretto 25 -- Development 25 -- The Dramatic Unities 26 -- The Social Element 26 -- The Role of Grace 27 -- Romantic Love 27 -- The Scenic Symbolism 28 -- 4 The Symbolic Undertow 37 -- The Pastoral World 38 -- A Christian Theology 38 -- A Psychological Insight 38 -- Bertram: A Gothic/Byronic Anti-Hero 39 -- Alice: An Emblematic/Allegorical Heroine of Romance 39 -- Robert: A Disturbingly Modern Uncentred Self 40 -- The Waverley Hero 40 -- The Fairy-Tale Subtext 41 -- The Criteria of Fairy Tales 42 -- Fairy Tales and the 'Family Romance' 43 -- The Jungian Search for the Self 44 -- The Influence of Faust 46 -- The Nodal Temptation 47 -- A Spiritual Significance 48 -- Heaven 48 -- Hell 49 -- The Eternal Feminine 49 -- The Path of Purgation and the Mystical Ascent 50 -- 5 Scribe's Achievement 55 -- Bertram's Evocation 55 -- Isabelle's Cavatina 56 -- The Arias for Alice 59 -- The Chorus 66 -- 6 Th Music 69 -- Orchestral Colour (Leitklang/Klangmotif) 69 -- Formal Innovation 70 -- Melodic Pliability 71 -- Principles of Coherence 71 -- The Romantic Mood 72 -- The Role of Nature 72 -- Tonality 73 -- The Overture 74 -- The Use of Leitmotif 75 -- The Tournament 75 -- The Four Strokes of Hell 76 -- The Ballad of Robert le Diable 76 -- The Storm Motif 77 -- The Scenic Fresco or Tableau 77 -- The Two Levels of Significance (duets) 78 -- 7 The Ballet Sequences 83 -- 1) The Pas de cinq 83 -- 2) The Ballet of the Nuns 84 -- The Dark Pastoral 85 -- Grand Scenic Construction and Melodic Adaptation 86 -- 1) The Valse Infernale 87 -- 2) The Procession des nonnes 87 -- 3) The Bacchanale 89 -- 4) The Three Airs de danse and Choeur dansé 90 -- The Influence of The Ballet of the Nuns 92 -- 8 Critical Reaction 101 -- The Impact of the Score 104 -- 9 The Influence of the Opera 107 -- Arrangements 108 -- 10 The Performance History 111 -- In Paris 111 -- In Europe 112 -- European Statistics 114 -- In the World 115 -- The Twentieth Century 115 -- Modern Revivals 116 -- 11 The Iconography 129 -- The Costumes and Scenery 129 -- The Ballet of the Nuns 131 -- 12 Contemporaneous Art and Robert le Diable 145 -- The Scene at the Cross 145 -- George Sand 154 -- Jenny Lind 156 -- Scenic Kaleidoscopes 160 -- The Liebig Cards 165.

ISBN

• 9781443841917 (hbk.)
• 1443841919 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 821700111
• SCSB-9937078

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library