Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France

Diana Hallman is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Kentucky. She is a contributing author to the Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera (2003) edited by David Charlton, and has written articles and reviews concerning Halévy and the politics of French grand opéra, as well as an article on the librettist Ludovic Halévy, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1998. She was a featured speaker for the BBC's live broadcast of La Juive from the Vienna Staatsoper, 1999. Dr Hallman's research interests also include the history of American concert life and performance, and she is completing a book on turn-of-the-century Austrian-American pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.

• List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The collaboration and rapprochement of the authors of La Juive; 2. The Halévys: citoyens and israélites of France; 3. The Council of Constance and the Voltairean critique; 4. Jewish-Christian opposition in music and drama; 5. Eléazar and Rachel as literary stereotypes; 6. The milieu of La Juive: Jewish imagery and identity in the July Monarchy; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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