Table of Contents

'Studying a little of the French Air': Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the Dramatic Operas of Henry Purcell - Andrew Woolley
Mendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera - Clive Brown
Funding Grand Opera in Regional France: Ideologies of the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Katharine Ellis
Stanford and Le Fanu's Shamus O'Brien: Protestant Constructions of Irish Nationalism in Late Victorian England - David Cooper
Janácek, Nejedlý and the Future of Czech National Opera -
'As for opera, I am bewildered': Gustav Holst on the Fringe of European Opera - Richard Greene
The Sadler's Wells Dialogues of Charles Dibdin -
Nobility in Mozart's Opera - Flora Willson / Reviews
New Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - Rachel Cowgill
The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi's La traviata - Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Carl Nielsen's Carnival: Time, Space and the Politics of Identity in Maskarade - Daniel Grimley
Beyond the Exotic: How 'Easter' is Aida? - Ralph Locke
Beyond Orientalism: The International Rise of Japan and the Revisions to Madama Butterfly - Domingos de Mascarenhas
Opera as Poetry: Bizet's Djamileh and the Ironies of Orientalism -
Rimsky-Korsadov, Pan Voyevoda and the Polish Question: Exposing the 'Occidentalist Irony' - Stephen Muir
Modernism's Distanced Sound: A British Approach to Schreker and Others - Peter Franklin
Being-with Grimes: The Problem of Others in Britten's First Opera -
Epilogue: Julian Rushton: A Family Memoir - Adrian Rushton and Edward Rushton and Thomas Rushton

About the Author

DANIEL M. GRIMLEY is Professor of Music, University of Oxford. Tutorial Fellow, Merton College. Associate Head (Research) of Humanities. Daniel Grimley's latest book was recently published by CUP at the end of 2018: Delius and the Sound of Place. Grimley has published various books with Boydell. KATHARINE ELLIS is 1684 Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge.

Reviews

[A] well-designed book. [with] lovingly prepared and edited [essays].
*NINETEENTH-CENTURY MUSIC REVIEW*