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Vincent Giroud. French Opera: a short history ( New Haven Yale University Press, 2010). x+366 pp. $40.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2012

Lesley A. Wright*
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii

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References

1 See William Walton, Composer: A Centenary Exhibition (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2002); Picasso and Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006); St. Petersburg: A Portrait of a Great City (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). Volumes co-edited with Jean-Christophe Branger are: Figures de l'antiquité dans l'opéra français des Troyens de Berlioz à l’Œdipe d'Enesco (Saint-Étienne: Publications de l'Université de Saint-Étienne, 2008) and Aspects de l'opéra français de Meyerbeer à Honegger (Lyons: Symétrie, 2009). Branger and Giroud also organize and participate in the biennial Massenet conference at Saint-Étienne (coordinated with the Massenet Festival) and are preparing a thematic catalogue of his works.

2 In this generally chronological organization and even his book title, Giroud may take his cue from Donald J. Grout and Hermine Weigel Williams’ A Short History of Opera, 4th ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

3 See, for example, Thomas Betzwieser, Sprechen und Singen: Ästhetik und Erscheinungsformen der Dialogoper (Stuttgart/Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 2002)Google Scholar and Arnold Jacobshagen, Der Chor in den französischen Oper des späten Ancien Régime (Franfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1997)Google Scholar.