Opera Outside the Box

Opera Outside the Box: Notions of Opera in Nineteenth-Century Britain addresses operatic "experiences" outside the opera houses of Britain during the nineteenth century.

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Roberta Montemorra Marvin is a professor emerita of musicology at the Massachusetts (USA), affiliated Professor in International Studies at the University of Iowa (USA), and associate general editor for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. She studies Italian opera of the nineteenth century with an emphasis on the reception and performance of Verdi s operas in Victorian Britain.

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Introduction: Opera Outside the Box

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Chapter 1. Of Shreds and Patches: Operatic Commonplaces in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edward Jacobson

Chapter 2. Perceptions of Verdi in Victorian Britain

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Chapter 3. Opera and British Choral Culture: Verdi's Requiem in London

Chloe Valenti

Chapter 4. "A Carnival or a Sacrament, a Fair or a Funeral:" The Prima Donna at the British Musical Festival, 1810-1834

Charles Edward McGuire

Chapter 5. Adelaide Kemble and Opera Arias in Concert and Drawing Rooms

Matildie Wium

Chapter 6. Marie Wilton, La! Sonnambula! and the Opening of the Prince of Wales's Theatre in 1865

Valeria De Lucca

Chapter 7. Friends and Visitors: Chamber Music, Concert Aesthetics, and the Conundrum of Operatic Song

Christina Bashford

Epilogue