Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

List of Music Examples

pp viii-ix

List of Tables

pp ix-ix

Notes on Editors and Contributors

pp x-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-10

I - Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and National Opera

pp 11-11

1 - ‘Studying a little of the French Air’: Louis Grabu’s Albion and Albanius and the Dramatic Operas of Henry Purcell

pp 12-39

2 - Mendelssohn’s Die Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera

pp 40-66

3 - Funding Grand Opera in Regional France: Ideologies of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

pp 67-84

4 - Stanford’s and Le Fanu’s Shamus O’Brien: Protestant Constructions of Irish Nationalism in Late Victorian England

pp 85-102

5 - Janáček, Nejedlý and the Future of Czech National Opera

pp 103-121

6 - ‘As for opera I am bewildered’: Gustav Holst on the Fringe of European Opera

pp 122-146

II - Opera, Class and the Politics of Enlightenment

pp 147-147

7 - The Sadler’s Wells Dialogues of Charles Dibdin

pp 148-175

8 - Nobility in Mozart’s Operas

pp 176-193

9 - New Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Die Zauberflöte

pp 194-221

10 - The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi’s La traviata

pp 222-240

11 - Carl Nielsen’s Carnival: Time, Space and the Politics of Identity in Maskarade

pp 241-262

III - Opera and Otherness

pp 263-263

12 - Beyond the Exotic: How ‘Eastern’ Is Aida?

pp 264-280

13 - Beyond Orientalism: The International Rise of Japan and the Revisions to Madama Butterfly

pp 281-302

14 - Opera as Poetry: Bizet’s Djamileh and the Ironies of Orientalism

pp 303-326

15 - Rimsky-Korsakov, Pan Voyevoda and the Polish Question: Exposing the ‘Occidentalist Irony’

pp 327-350

16 - Modernism’s Distanced Sound: A British Approach to Schreker and Others

pp 351-361

17 - Being-with Grimes: The Problem of Others in Britten’s First Opera

pp 362-381

Julian Rushton: A Family Memoir

pp 382-384

7 - The Works of Julian Rushton

pp 385-392