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Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Music's Great Enigma: Giacomo Meyerbeer--Neglected Master of Grand Opéra 2. History, Myth, and Music in a Theme of Exploration: Some Reflections on the Musico-Dramatic Language of L'Africaine 3. The Thematic Nexus of Religion, Power, Politics, and Love in the Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer 4. Meyerbeer and the Comic Spirit: Miniature Variations on Grand Themes 5. Che sarà sarà: The `Star' of Which Dreams Are Made--Scribe and Meyerbeer's opéra comique, L'Étoile du Nord 6. The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer 7. Giacomo Meyerbeer's Briefwechsel und Tagebücher, Vol. 5 8. Meyerbeer, Halévy and Auber: Some New Perspectives on the World of Mid-Nineteenth-Century French Opera 9. Bellini and Meyerbeer: Melodic Structure and Dramatic Exigency 10. Hector Berlioz and Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Complex Friendship Revisited
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Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.