- Wild, Nicole. Dictionnaire des théâtres parisiens au XIXe siècle: Les théâtres
et la musique.Domaine musicologique, 4. Paris: Amateurs de Livres, 1989.
509p. PN2636 .P3 W54.
History, repertoire, and principal staff for opera houses and other theaters.
Useful bibliography (p.457–480) covers primary and secondary materials.
Name index. - Pendle, Karin. “Boulevard Theaters.” In Music in Paris (#2269), 509–535.
No premieres of importance took place at the Opéra between 1819 and 1828,
but the boulevard theaters were flourishing. Comédie-vaudeville,melodrama,
Cirque-Olympique,and spectacles d’optique(dioramas with lighting effects)
are described by Pendle, who notes that elements of these performances were
incorporated into French grand opera. - Bäcker, Ursula. Frankreichs Musik zwischen Romantik und Moderne. Regens-
burg: G. Bosse, 1965. 324p. ML270.4 .E32.
Extracts a view of French music in the period 1848 to 1914 from writings in
the French press; with extensive commentary. Emphasis on the place of Wag-
ner. Bibliography of about 1,000 items, name index.
2278.Le théâtre lyrique français, 1945–1985.Ed. Pierre Ancelin. Paris: H. Cham-
pion, 1987. 481p. ISBN 2-8520-3041-1. ML1727.5 .T5.
An account of opera and musical theater, with a chronology of French operas
and foreign operas performed. List of composers most played on French radio
(Offenbach the winner) and of operas most performed in all French theaters
(Carmenfirst). French singers and composers; recent architecture; opera in
cities outside Paris. Bibliography, index. - Cohen, H. Robert, and Marie-Odile Gigou. One Hundred Years of Operatic
Staging in France (ca. 1830–1930): A Descriptive Catalogue of Staging Manu-
als, Annotated Libretti and Annotated Scores in the Bibliothèque de l’Associa-
tion de la Regie Théâtrale (Paris). Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century France, - Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon, 1986. lviii, 334p. ISBN 0-918728-69-4.
ML128 .O4 C63.
Title also in French. An inventory of about 700 manuals, alphabetical by title.
Their content is fully described and is accessible through indexes by composer,
librettist, other names, and theaters (by country and city).
See also #2300.
- Nectoux, Jean-Michel. “Trois orchestres.” In Music in Paris(#2269), 471–
History of the orchestras of the Opéra, Théâtre-Italien, and the Conservatoire.
Conditions of employment for the players and conductors; identification of all
of them.
The operatic scene is well described in writings about individuals; see, for example,
#462 (Scribe), #728 (David), and #1178 (Méhul). See also Die “Opéra-comique” und
ihr Einfluss(#93).
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