Opera, liberalism, and antisemitism in nineteenth-century France : the politics of Halévy's La juive
"This is the first comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835), a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist, Eugene Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy. Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera within the context of French social and cultural history. The book addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance and Jewish-Christian conflict in subject, setting, and characterization, viewing the anticlerical thrust of its critique as a reminder of the historical abuses of an autocratic Church and State and as reflection of the era's liberal ideology. It also considers the portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary stereotypes, Jewish "emancipation" and acculturation, and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in French society."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002
Operas
xvii, 390 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
9780521650861, 9780521038812, 0521650860, 0521038812
48536546
The collaboration and rapprochement of the authors of La Juive
The Halévys: citoyens and israélities of France
The Council of Constance and the Voltairean critique
Jewish-Christian opposition in music and drama
Eléazar and Rachel as literary stereotypes
The milieu of La Juive: Jewish imagery and identity in the July Monarchy
נושא ישן: Opera - France - 19th century
נושא ישן: Liberalism - France - history - 19th century
נושא ישן: Antisemitism - France
English