Giacomo Meyerbeer and music drama in nineteenth-century Paris / Mark Everist.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-412) and index.

Parisian music drama, 1806-64 : social structures and artistic contexts -- Lindoro in Lyon : Rossini's Le barbier de S�eville -- Gluck, Berlioz, and Castil-Blaze : the poetics and reception of French opera -- Meyerbeer's Margherita d'Anjou -- Meyerbeer's Il crociato in Egitto : m�elodrame, opera, orientalism -- Giacomo Meyerbeer and music drama at the Paris Od�eon during the Bourbon restoration -- The name of the rose : Meyerbeer's op�era comique, Robert le diable -- Fromental Hal�evy : from op�era comique to grand op�era -- Translating Weber's Euryanthe : German romanticism at the dawn of French grand op�era -- "Tutti i francesi erano diventati matti" : Bellini et the duet for two basses -- Donizetti and Wagner : op�era de genre at the Th�e�atre de la Renaissance -- "Der Lieblingswunsch meines Lebens" : contexts and continuity in Meyerbeer's op�eras comiques.