- Jellinek, George. “The Summers and Winters of Finnish Opera.” OQ11-3
(1995): 39–44.
A useful glimpse of recent operas and performances in Helsinki and Savon-
linna. The key figures have been Martti Talvela, who developed the Savonlinna
festival, and composers Aulis Sallinen and Joonas Kokkonen.
France (German: Frankreich; Italian: Francia)
Editions
2224.French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Ed. Barry Brook. Stuyvesant,
N.Y.: Pendragon, 1983–. 75v. M1500 .M49 S89. (Cited in this guide as FO.)
Each volume has a full score (facsimile) and significant background informa-
tion about the work: biography, worklist, librettist, genesis, performance his-
tory, reception, variant editions, plots, bibliographies. Individual volumes are
entered in this guide under the names of composers.
2225.Chefs d’oeuvre classiques de l’opéra français. Publiés sous la direction de T.
Michaelis... Paris, 1880. Reprint, New York: Broude, 1971. 40v. (Cited in
this guide as Chefs.)
Editions (piano-vocal scores) of operas by 14 composers, including 11 by Lully
and 7 by Rameau. Also includes the music of Le ballet-comique de la reine,by
Balthazar de Beaujoyeulx (1581), a notable precursor of 17th-century opera.
The works in this set are cited separately under the names of their composers
elsewhere in this guide.Bibliographies
This is a useful list of French operas:
- Crozet, Felix. Revue de la musique dramatique en France...Grenoble: Prud-
homme, 1866. 477p. Supplement, 1872. 39p. ML1727.4 .C7.
Premiere data and plot synopses for about 1,000 works, with notes; chronol-
ogy of 386 operas presented 1671–1842. No bibliography, no index.
Music in General: 17th and 18th Centuries
2227.The New Grove French Baroque Masters: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande,
Couperin, Rameau. Ed. James R. Anthony et al. New York: Norton, 1986. ix,
318p. ISBN 0-393-02286-2. ML390 .N46.
Derived from entries in NG, with added material to incorporate recent
research and a new index of names, titles, and topics. Bibliographies are in
New Grovestyle, with incomplete data.- Benoit, Marcelle. Dictionnaire de la musique en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe
siècles. Paris: Fayard, 1992. xvi, 811p. ISBN 2-2130-2824-9. ML 101 .F8
D543.
About 2,500 articles by specialists on individuals, works, instruments, and gen-
res. Bibliography, by subject, of 1,751 items, with 241 entries for “Musique
France 417