1st Edition
Opera Outside the Box Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Introduction: Opera Outside the Box
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Chapter 1. Of Shreds and Patches: Operatic Commonplaces in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Edward Jacobson
Chapter 2. Perceptions of Verdi in Victorian Britain
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Chapter 3. Opera and British Choral Culture: Verdi’s Requiem in London
Chloe Valenti
Chapter 4. "A Carnival or a Sacrament, a Fair or a Funeral:" The Prima Donna at the British Musical Festival, 1810-1834
Charles Edward McGuire
Chapter 5. Adelaide Kemble and Opera Arias in Concert and Drawing Rooms
Matildie Wium
Chapter 6. Marie Wilton, La! Sonnambula! and the Opening of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre in 1865
Valeria De Lucca
Chapter 7. Friends and Visitors: Chamber Music, Concert Aesthetics, and the Conundrum of Operatic Song
Christina Bashford
Epilogue
Roger Parker
Biography
Roberta Montemorra Marvin is a professor emerita of musicology at the Massachusetts (USA), affiliated Professor in International Studies at the University of Iowa (USA), and associate general editor for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. She studies Italian opera of the nineteenth century with an emphasis on the reception and performance of Verdi’s operas in Victorian Britain.
This fascinating collection offers a new and unfamiliar view of (mostly) nineteenth-century operas we thought we knew, focusing on their general spread through British culture by means of what the editor calls "operatic experiences outside the opera house," and "operatically flavored activities." Edited flawlessly by pre-eminent Verdi scholar Roberta Marvin, the volume includes contributions by leading scholars of opera and of Georgian and Victorian musical life, as well as by a few new voices of compelling interest.
Ruth Solie, Professor Emerita, Smith College
