French Opera at the Fin De Siècle

This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus .

List of Illustrations

xiii

List of Musical Examples

xiv

Abbreviations

xvii

Introduction: The Business and Politics of Opera in Fin-de-Siècle Paris

1

(24)

PART I. Jules Massenet

1. The Ascent of Massenet

25

(20)

2. Manon

45

(28)

3. Around an American Muse

73

(9)

4. Esclarmonde

82

(20)

5. Massenet at the Apex

102

(11)

6. Werther

113

(22)

7. Thais

135

(25)

8. Massenet Emasculated

160

(9)

PART II. Ambivalent Wagnerians and Conservative Renewal

9. Ernest Reyer as Berliozian

169

(9)

10. Sigurd

178

(17)

11. Camille Saint-Saëns, Gounod, and the Wagnerians

195

(11)

12. Saint-Saëns on the Cusp

206

(7)

13. Henry VIII

213

(18)

14. Édouard Lalo: Wagnerian malgré lui

231

(4)

15. Le Roi d'Ys

235

(20)

PART III. Wagnerian Renewal

16. Emmanuel Chabrier: Wagnerian of the First Hour

255

(14)

17. Gwendoline

269

(17)

18. Le Roi malgré lui

286

(15)

19. Vincent d'Indy and Moral Order

301

(7)

20. The Franckiste as Wagner Critic

308

(9)

21. Fervaal

317

(34)

22. The Apotheosis of Ernest Chausson

351

(8)

23. Le Roi Arthus

359

(36)

PART IV. Realist Opera

24. Alfred Bruneau and Émile Zola

395

(17)

25. L'attaque du moulin

412

(14)

26. Bohemian Montmartre, Anarchism, and Gustave Charpentier

426

(10)

27. Louise

436

(32)

Epilogue by Way of Pelléas et Mélisande

468

(12)

Appendix. Plot Summaries

480

(26)

Selected Bibliography

506

(9)

Index

515

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French Opera at the Fin De Siècle

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