Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Soundscape of the 1889 Exposition Universelle
- 1 Exhibiting Music at the Exposition Universelle
- 2 Opera, Ballet, and the Politics of French Identity
- 3 The Republic’s Muse: Augusta Holmès’s Ode triomphale
- 4 French Encounters with the Far East
- 5 Belly Dancers, Gypsies, and French Peasants
- 6 The Marvels of Technology
- Appendix 1 Programs of Concerts at the Exposition Universelle
- Appendix 2 Performances at the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique during the Exposition Universelle
- Dramatis Personae
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
- Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair
Appendix 2 Performances at the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique during the Exposition Universelle
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Music Examples
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Soundscape of the 1889 Exposition Universelle
- 1 Exhibiting Music at the Exposition Universelle
- 2 Opera, Ballet, and the Politics of French Identity
- 3 The Republic’s Muse: Augusta Holmès’s Ode triomphale
- 4 French Encounters with the Far East
- 5 Belly Dancers, Gypsies, and French Peasants
- 6 The Marvels of Technology
- Appendix 1 Programs of Concerts at the Exposition Universelle
- Appendix 2 Performances at the Opéra and the Opéra-Comique during the Exposition Universelle
- Dramatis Personae
- Bibliography
- Index
- Eastman Studies in Music
- Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair
Summary
Works Performed
Opéra:
Delibes, Léo. Coppélia, ou La Fille aux yeux d’émail (1870), 2 acts, libr. by Charles Nuitter.
Gounod, Charles. Faust (1859), 5 acts, libr. by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Gounod, Charles. Roméo et Juliette (1867), 5 acts, libr. by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Halévy, Fromental. La Juive (1835), 5 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe.
Massenet, Jules. Le Cid (1885), 4 acts, libr. by Adolphe d’Ennery, Edouard Blau, and Louis Gallet.
Meyerbeer, Giacomo. Les Huguenots (1836), 5 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps.
Meyerbeer, Giacomo. Le Prophète (1849), 5 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe.
Meyerbeer, Giacomo. L’Africaine (1865), 5 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe, François Joseph Fétis, et al.
Paladilhe, Émile. Patrie! (1886), 5 acts, libr. by Victorien Sardou and Louis Gallet.
Rossini, Gioacchino. Guillaume Tell (1829), 5 acts, libr. by Étienne de Jouy and Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. Henry VIII (1883), 4 acts, libr. by Léonce Détroyat and Armand Silvestre.
Thomas, Ambroise. Hamlet (1868), 5 acts, libr. by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Thomas, Ambroise. La Tempête (1889), 3 acts, libr. by Jules Barbier.
Verdi, Giuseppe. Rigoletto (1851), 3 acts, libr. by Francesco Maria Piave.
Verdi, Giuseppe. Aida (1871), 4 acts, libr. by Antonio Ghislanzoni, after a scenario by Auguste Mariette.
Opéra-Comique:
Adam, Adolphe. Le Chalet (1834), 1 act, libr. by Eugène Scribe and Mélesville [Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier].
Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit. Fra Diavolo (1830), 3 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe.
Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit. Le Domino noir (1837), 3 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe.
Bemberg, Hermann. Le Baiser de Suzon (1888), 1 act, libr. by Pierre Barbier.
Bizet, Georges. Carmen (1875), 4 acts, libr. by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
Boieldieu, François-Adrien. La Dame blanche (1825), 3 acts, libr. by Eugène Scribe.
Dalayrac, Nicholas-Marie. Raoul, Sire de Créqui (1789), 3 acts, libr. by Bernard Boutet de Monvel.
Dalayrac, Nicholas-Marie. La Soirée orageuse (1790), 1 act, libr. by Jean Baptiste Radet.
Deffès, Louis. Le Café du roi (1861), 1 act, libr. by Henri Meilhac.
Donizetti, Gaetano. La Fille du régiment (1840), 2 acts, libr. by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Alfred Bayard.
Gounod, Charles. Philémon et Baucis (1860), 2 acts, libr. by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré.
Grétry, André Ernest Modeste. Richard, Coeur de Lion (1784), 3 acts, libr. by Michel Jean Sedaine.
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- Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair , pp. 331 - 344Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2005