Art and Ideology in European Opera (EPDF) von Rachel Cowgill

Essays highlight the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness.

'Studying a little of the French Air': Louis Grabu'sAlbion and Albanius and the Dramatic Operas of Henry Purcell - Andrew Woolley
Mendelssohn'sDie Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera - Clive Brown
Funding Grand Opera in Regional France: Ideologies of the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Katharine Ellis
Stanford and Le Fanu'sShamus O'Brien: Protestant Constructions of Irish Nationalism in Late Victorian England - David Cooper
Janácek, Nejedlý and the Future of Czech National Opera
'As for opera, I am bewildered': Gustav Holst on the Fringe of European Opera - Richard Greene
The Sadler's Wells Dialogues of Charles Dibdin
Nobility in Mozart's Opera - Flora Willson / Reviews
New Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Mozart'sDie Zauberflöte - Rachel Cowgill
The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi'sLa traviata - Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Carl Nielsen's Carnival: Time, Space and the Politics of Identity inMaskarade - Daniel Grimley
Beyond the Exotic: How 'Easter' isAida? - Ralph Locke
Beyond Orientalism: The International Rise of Japan and the Revisions toMadama Butterfly - Domingos de Mascarenhas
Opera as Poetry: Bizet'sDjamileh and the Ironies of Orientalism
Rimsky-KorsadovPan Voyevoda and the Polish Question: Exposing the 'Occidentalist Irony' - Stephen Muir
Modernism's Distanced Sound: A British Approach to Schreker and Others - Peter Franklin
Being-with Grimes: The Problem of Others in Britten's First Opera
Epilogue: Julian Rushton: A Family Memoir - Adrian Rushton and Edward Rushton and Thomas Rushton