Art and Ideology in European Opera

Essays highlight the interplay between opera, art and ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera and otherness.

'Studying a little of the French Air': Louis Grabu's Albion and Albanius and the Dramatic Operas of Henry Purcell - Andrew WoolleyMendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera - Clive BrownFunding Grand Opera in Regional France: Ideologies of the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Katharine EllisStanford and Le Fanu's Shamus O'Brien: Protestant Constructions of Irish Nationalism in Late Victorian England - David CooperJanácek, Nejedlý and the Future of Czech National Opera'As for opera, I am bewildered': Gustav Holst on the Fringe of European Opera - Richard GreeneThe Sadler's Wells Dialogues of Charles DibdinNobility in Mozart's Opera - Flora Willson / ReviewsNew Light and the Man of Might: Revisiting Early Interpretations of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte - Rachel CowgillThe Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi's La traviata - Roberta Montemorra MarvinCarl Nielsen's Carnival: Time, Space and the Politics of Identity in Maskarade - Daniel GrimleyBeyond the Exotic: How 'Easter' is Aida? - Ralph LockeBeyond Orientalism: The International Rise of Japan and the Revisions to Madama Butterfly - Domingos de MascarenhasOpera as Poetry: Bizet's Djamileh and the Ironies of OrientalismRimsky-Korsadov, Pan Voyevoda and the Polish Question: Exposing the 'Occidentalist Irony' - Stephen MuirModernism's Distanced Sound: A British Approach to Schreker and Others - Peter FranklinBeing-with Grimes: The Problem of Others in Britten's First OperaEpilogue: Julian Rushton: A Family Memoir - Adrian Rushton and Edward Rushton and Thomas Rushton