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Tables of Contents for French Opera at the Fin De Siecle
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
xiii
List of Musical Examples
xiv
Abbreviations
xvii
Introduction: The Business and Politics of Opera in Fin-de-Siecle Paris
1
24
Part I. Jules Massenet
The Ascent of Massenet
25
20
Manon
45
28
Around an American Muse
73
9
Esclarmonde
82
20
Massenet at the Apex
102
11
Werther
113
22
Thais
135
25
Massenet Emasculated
160
9
Part II. Ambivalent Wagnerians and Conservative Renewal
Ernest Reyer as Berliozian
169
9
Sigurd
178
17
Camille Saint-Saens, Gounod, and the Wagnerians
195
11
Saint-Saens on the Cusp
206
7
Henry VIII
213
18
Edouard Lalo: Wagnerian malgre lui
231
4
Le Roi d'Ys
235
20
Part III. Wagnerian Renewal
Emmanuel Chabrier: Wagnerian of the First Hour
255
14
Gwendoline
269
17
Le Roi malgre lui
286
15
Vincent d'Indy and Moral Order
301
7
The Franckiste as Wagner Critic
308
9
Fervaal
317
34
The Apotheosis of Ernest Chausson
351
8
Le Roi Arthus
359
36
Part IV. Realist Opera
Alfred Bruneau and Emile Zola
395
17
L'Attaque du moulin
412
14
Bohemian Montmartre, Anarchism, and Gustave Charpentier
426
10
Louise
436
32
Epilogue by Way of Pelleas et Melisande
468
12
Appendix. Plot Summaries
480
26
Selected Bibliography
506
9
Index
515