Cruz, Gabriela - Grand Illusion

A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.

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CONTENTS

List of Illustrations and Note on Translations
List of Music Examples
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Modernity of Grand Opera
1. Opera and Beauty
2. Gaslight and Phantasmagoria at the Opera
3. The Diorama, Apparitions and Dream Image in Robert le Diable
4. The Phantom Ship in Der fliegende Hollander and L'Africaine
5. The Poetics of Sensation in L'Africaine and Tristan und Isolde
6. Aida, Egyptomania and the After-Life of Grand Opera
Works Cited