Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France : The Politics of Halevy's La Juive
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Opera
ISBN-10
0521038812
ISBN-13
9780521038812
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 16th, 2007
Print length
412 Pages
Weight
6 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 15.10 x 2.20 cms
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This is a comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opéra La Juive, by Halévy. Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera within the context of French social history and addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance and antisemitic attitudes towards Jews in French society.
This comprehensive critical study of the nineteenth-century French grand opera La Juive (Paris Opera, 1835) is a powerful and successful work by the leading dramatist and librettist Eugene Scribe, and Conservatoire-trained composer, Fromental Halevy. Hallman explores the politically charged messages of the opera within the context of French social and cultural history. The book addresses the opera's portrayal of religious intolerance and Jewish-Christian conflict in subject, setting and characterization, viewing the anticlerical thrust of its critique as a reminder of the historical abuses of an autocratic Church and State and as reflection of the era's liberal ideology. It also considers the portrayal of the central Jewish characters in light of literary stereotypes and contradictory, antisemitic attitudes toward Jews in French society.
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