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Summary:

"From the mid-1800s in Europe there was a vigorous and enthusiastic expansion of diverse forms of musical theatre. The cabarets, music-halls and private theatres rubbed shoulders with the subsidised and official theatres that offered more established types of spectacle, creating a milieu which welcomed a number of new musical and theatrical genres which fed from and into one another. In the midst of this creative dynamism, alongside revues and café-concert spectacles, operetta and its derivative forms took centre stage. Divided into six sections, the volume covers the revue de fin d'année as a theatrical genre which also influenced all other lighter genres in France during its heyday ; dance music in Offenbach's operettas and his musical recreation of the Parisian soundscape ; transformation of the opera repertoire in operetta and revue parodies ; Viennese and English operetta and musical comedy from the end of the 'reign' of Gilbert and Sullivan until the outbreak of World War II ; diverse theatrical practices from Parisian puppet theatre and the posters of musical spectacles in the café conchantant, to contemporary Italian operetta before the rise of Fascism, and its dissemination, via the impresario Vittorio Rosi, in Japan." (Introduction)

Table of Contents:

• La revue de fin d'année à Paris au XIXe siècle: chambre d'echo de la culture musicale / Olivier Vara
• Comets, calembours, chorus girls: the music of the revue de fin d'année for the year 1858 at the Théâtre des Variétés: a preliminary evaluation / Richard Sherr
• La revue de fin'année, entre divertissement et avant-garde: le cas Apollinaire / Alessandro Maras
• Street cries on the operetta stage: Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halle (1858) / Jacek Blaszkiewicz
• Dance in Jacques Offenbach's musical theatre: between imagination, improvisation and choreography / Stephanie Schroedter
• 'Du grand au petit': Faust on Parisian stages in 1869 / Clair Rowden
• Parodias españolas sobre Lohengrin / José Ignacio Suárez García
• Was man in Wien sucht... Sitze und Logen für die Operettentheater: Annäherungen an die Räume der Wiener Operette / Marion Linhardt
• A statutory creation?: The grand duke and intertextuality in the performance of the Savoy Operas / Christopher M. Scheer
• A Greek slave (1898) at Daly's Theatre: performing antiquity, gender and class in late Victorial musical comedy / William A. Everett
• The waltzing years: British operetta 1907-1939 / John Snelson
• Little wooden actors and symbolism at the Petit-Théâtre de la Marionnette / Catrina Flint de Médicis
• De l'affiche à l'artiste: figures répertoire et performances musicales dans le Music-hall: une lecture du fonds de l'ART / Sylvain Samson
• Un signor senza pace di Dino Rulli (1925): un esempio della ricezione del jazz nell'operetta italiana degli anni Venti / Giovanni Recupido
• Portraits de femmes exotiques dans le café-chantant et dans l'opérette italiens (1910-1940 environ) / Michael Niccolai
• Giovanni Vittorino Rosi's musical theatre: opera, operetta and the westernisation of modern Japan / Naomi Matsumoto
• Deconstruction the National: the operetta Maria da Fonte / Maria José Artiaga
• L'operetta e la società socialista: l'esperienza del teatro popolare di Pola (1949-1957) / Lada Duraković
• Exoticism and censorship in post-war Spain: Luna de miel en el Cairo (1943), operetta by 'Maestro' Alonso and José Muñoz Román / Mario Lerena.

Contributors:

Niccolai, Michela , editor

Rowden, Clair , editor

Languages:

English
French
German
Italian
Spanish

Language Notes:

In English, French, Spanish, German, or Italian.

Related Series:

Speculum musicae; [volume] 30

Subjects:

Musical theater — Europe — History and criticism

Musicals — Europe — History and criticism

Musical theater

Musicals

Europe

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xviii, 479 pages : illustrations, music ; 27 cm.

Call Numbers:

ML1720.4 .M875 2017

ISBNs:

9782503577661
2503577660

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9782503577661

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018424976

OCLC Numbers:

1005710116