... 1840 and 1842, and wrote nothing short of a eulogy for La reine de Chypre in Bericht über eine neue Pariser Oper (La reine de Chypre von Halévy Abend-Zeitung [Dresden], 26 and 29 Janu- ary 1842. 37Guilliaume (1825 1900) was the Secretary of the Conservatoire Royal de Musique in Brussels and a devotee...

...Flora Willson When Don Carlos premiered at the Paris Opéra in March 1867, there was considerable excitement among critics about the prospect of a new work from one of Europe's most famous and popular living composers. In the event, the opera's reception was riddled with inconsistencies...

... in midcentury Paris. In exploring relationships between dance, femininity, and singing, this article situates coloratura dance arias in the Paris of Napoléon III's Second Empire, a city sometimes condemned for its decadent materialism or dismissed because of its political impotence, in spite of its cultural...

...William Gibbons The 1861 productions of Wagner's Tannhäuser and Gluck's Alceste at the Paris Opéra led to a major turning point in reception of both composers in France. After Tannhäuser 's spectacular failure in March of that year, the management of the Opéra decided to mount Alceste , a move...