Description
About the Author
Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham. Her research interests focus primarily on nineteenth-century French opera, and other forms of music theatre including melodrama, pantomime and ballet, and she has published widely on these topics, including French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination (2009). Current projects include an examination of the cataclysmic denouements of works produced in Paris 1789-1859, and the exchanges and tensions between art, theatre and opera in nineteenth-century France.
Reviews
'This wide-ranging and exciting collection of essays is exactly the kind of interdisciplinary work that we have long hoped would emerge from the new histories of performing arts. Its contributors are at home in musicology and media history, in theatre and in performance studies, and the result is a new conceptualization of a long-despised genre, which is at last beginning to be understood.' Jacky Bratton, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 'This is an important and useful book... We venture into the territory of musical melodrama at some peril which is precisely why we should do so, if with as much caution as enthusiasm of the kind that must surely be aroused by this collection of essays.' Music and Letters
Book Information
ISBN 9781138274013
Author Sarah Hibberd
Format Paperback
Page Count 314
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g