Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and genres, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, set designs, scenery and costumes. This book both tracks specific aspects of this culture and examines stage music in Paris through the lens of one of its most important figures: Giacomo Meyerbeer. > Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this contributed to an artistic environment that had musicians from Italian- and German-speaking states beating a path to the doors of the Acad\u00E9mie Royale de Musique, Op\u00E9ra-Comique, Th\u00E9\u00C3\u00A2tre Italien, Th\u00E9\u00C3\u00A2tre Royal de l'Od\u00E9on and Th\u00E9\u00C3\u00A2tr.