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French opera overtures by New Philharmonia Orchestra

French opera arias by London Philharmonic Orchestra

Farrar in French opera by Teatro alla Scala. Orchestra

French opera arias by Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Souvenirs of rare French opera. Vol. 2

A double bill of French opera November 4, 1983. by Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory of Music

A double-bill of French opera Georges Bizet's doctor miracle and Maurice Ravel's l'enfant et les sortilèges. by Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875

A double-bill of French opera Georges Bizet's doctor miracle and Maurice Ravel's l'enfant et les sortilèges. by Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875

Airs d'operas français French opera arias = Französische Opernarien. by Anderson, June, 1952-

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Plácido Domingo : my greatest roles. Volume 3, French opera by Warner Classics (Firm), NVC Arts (Firm), Wiener Staatsoper. Orchester, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, San Francisco Opera. Orchestra, San Francisco Opera. Chorus, Royal Opera House (London, England). Orchestra, Royal Opera House (London, England). Chorus

“…My greatest roles. Volume 3, French opera…”

Airs d'opéras français by Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

“…French opera arias…”

The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera

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Opera 101 : a complete guide to learning and loving opera by Plotkin, Fred

Table of Contents: “…400 years of opera -- Becoming an opera cognoscente -- Going to the opera -- Discography for Opera 101 -- Rigoletto: learning your first opera -- Tosca: opera as drama -- Lucia di Lammermoor: drama expressed through music -- Il barbiere di Siviglia: opera and comedy -- Don Giovanni: Classical opera -- Les contes d'Hoffmann: French opera -- Eugene Onegin: romantic opera -- Don Carlo: grand opera -- Tannhäuser: opera and ideas -- Die walküre: epic opera -- Elektra: psychological opera -- Opera and you: a lifelong love affair -- Appendixes.…”

The ultimate art : essays around and about opera by Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the difference is they sing -- Singing Greek tragedy -- When opera was still serious -- Ariosto and his children -- Don Giovanni : the impossible opera -- What Peter Sellars did to Mozart -- Norma : the case for bel canto -- Hugo sung and unsung : or why we put up with dumb opera plots -- Sex and religion in French opera -- Nuremberg used and abused -- Whatever became of the breastplates? …”
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Essay on the origin of languages and writings related to music by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Table of Contents: “…Plan regarding new signs for music -- Letter to the Mercure on a new system of musical notation -- Dissertation on modern music -- Letter on Italian and French Opera -- Letter on "Omphale" (Grimm) -- Remarks on the subject of the letter by M. …”
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Composing the citizen : music as public utility in Third Republic France by Pasler, Jann

Table of Contents: “…Paris : a walking tour (Topographies of power : the semiotics of the Parisian landscape ; Negotiating life in the city ; New promenades in the aural landscapes of Paris ; The legacy of the Third Republic) -- Forming public spirit and useful citizens (Use, the useful, and public utility : a theory of musical value ; Reinscribing the revolutionary legacy ) -- Shaping judgment and national taste (Music as political culture : from active listening to active citizenship ; Regenerating national pride : musical progress and international glory) -- Instituting Republican culture (Imagining a new nation through music : new traditions, new history ; An ideology of diversity, eclecticism, and pleasure ; Musical hybridity and the challenges of colonialism ; Useful distractions and economic liberalism in the belle époque) -- Shifting notions of utility : between the nation and the self (Music as resistance and an emerging avant-garde ; The symbolic utility of music at the 1889 Universal Exhibition ; New alliances and new music ; The dynamics of identity and the struggle for distinction) -- Coda -- Appendix A, Important political and musical events in the early Third Republic -- Appendix B, References in Ménestrel to performances of French operas abroad, 1872-1888 -- Appendix C, Selected publications on revolutionary music after 1870.…”
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Maggie Teyte the pocket prima donna. by Royal Opera House (London, England). Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra

Table of Contents: “…Le spectre de la rose (4:35) ; Absence (4:31) / Berlioz -- Songs with orchestra: L'invitation au voyage (4:03) ; Phydilé (4:40) / Duparc -- Arias from French opera & operetta: La servante maîtresse. Aria de Zerbina / Pergolesi (3:28) ; Rose et Colas. …”

Opera and the Enlightenment

Table of Contents: “…The dramatic role of the chorus in French opera: evidence for the use of gesture, 1670-1770 / Mary Cyr ; 7. …”

La juive by Halévy, F., 1799-1862