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Meyerbeer Studies
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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"In 1936 Meyerbeer's opera Les Huguenots achieved its 1,120[superscript th] performance at the Paris Opera. This extraordinary record is an indication of the va
Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-02 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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On 29 February 1836, Les Huguenots, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), with words by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) and Émile Deschamps (1791–18
The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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But these operas are far more than imitations: they show an apprehension of convention and genre that is nothing less than a dismantling of accepted formulas, a
Meyerbeer's Italian Operas
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-16 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Giacomo Meyerbeer is the only composer who wrote for three different and equally important eras of 19th century music. His works straddle the German Romantic sc
Meyerbeer's L'Africaine
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Robert Ignatius Letellier
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-04 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Vasco de Gama was the last collaboration between Giacomo Meyerbeer and Eugène Scribe, the famous playwright and librettist. The work had intermittently preoccu