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Robert Ignatius Letellier

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Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine

History, Heroism and the Mythological Hermeneutic
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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This study examines the creation, dramaturgy, and musical style of L’Africaine, the final opera by Meyerbeer and Scribe. It covers its astonishing reception and revival, featuring a collection of iconography and its interpretation by the greatest singers of opera’s Golden Age.

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Meyerbeer’s Singspiele and Opéras-Comiques

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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This study explores Meyerbeer’s dramatic and vocal genius through his German Singspiels and Parisian triumphs. His later works fuse captivating beauty with extreme virtuosity, reaching new heights of technical and dramaturgical refinement.

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Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète

A Parable of Politics, Faith and Transcendence
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète was once one of the world’s most famous operas. Based on a tragic Reformation episode, it explores religion, power, and politics with powerful, gripping music. This study examines the opera’s origins, creation, and its astonishing global reception.

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Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots

An Evangel of Religion and Love
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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Meyerbeer’s most popular opera, Les Huguenots, is a gigantic drama of faith, love, and self-sacrifice set against the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Its music reaches sublime heights, capturing the tragedy of religious intolerance with intense passion.

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Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable

The Premier Opéra Romantique
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable is a milestone of French grand opéra. This book traces the opera’s history and music, and examines the fascinating iconography generated by its famous scenes, including the legendary Ballet of the Nuns, a touchstone of dark Romanticism.

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Opéra-Comique

A Sourcebook
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£64.99

Opéra-comique, a French genre not always comic in nature—the most famous example, Bizet’s Carmen, is a tragedy—reflected the cultural life of France. This sourcebook details its forgotten composers and operas, providing a way into a changing age.

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Operetta

A Sourcebook, Volume II
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£62.99

Explore the world of operetta, from Vienna and Paris to London and Broadway. This essential guide profiles the genre’s principal composers with biographies, detailed work lists, and selected synopses of their iconic stage works.

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Operetta

A Sourcebook, Volumes I and II
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£139.99

From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.

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Operetta

A Sourcebook, Volume I
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£83.99

From Offenbach’s Paris to the Vienna of Strauss and Lehár, operetta flourished. This source book presents an overview of the genre, tracing its history to modern musical comedy with composer biographies, a chronology, and selected synopses.

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Paquita, Ballet-Pantomime in Two Acts, Grand Pas Classique by Marius Petipa; and Nuit et Jour, Allegorical Ballet in One Act, by Marius Petpa; Piano Score, by Ludwig Minkus

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£49.99

This volume presents two ballets by Ludwig Minkus, composed at the peak of his powers with choreographer Marius Petipa. It includes the beloved Grand Pas from Paquita, a jewel of the classical repertoire, and the allegorical work, Nuit et Jour.

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Robert le Diable

The Facsimile
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£79.99

In *Robert le Diable*, Meyerbeer saw man divided between the angel and the devil. Its sensational 1831 première became the principal expression of French Romanticism. This facsimile of the long-lost manuscript reveals the creation of a work that changed opera.

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Romualdo Marenco

Excelsior and Sport
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£39.99

In Manzotti’s spectacular allegorical ballet Excelsior, the rise of human civilization is an embittered struggle between Light and Darkness. As inventions triumph, Marenco’s exhilarating music celebrates an apotheosis of light, progress, and peace.

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Sudden Death in Opera

Love, Mortality and Transcendence on the Lyric Stage
By: Michael Trimble, Robert Ignatius Letellier, Dale Hesdorffer
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An aspect of dying in opera rarely observed is Sudden Unexpected Death. This book explores 50 operas where deaths occur without obvious natural cause, often forming the epiphany of the story. It charts the influence of philosophy and medical science on these tragic denouements.

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Symbol and Metaphor in Opera

The Power and the Glory
By: Michael Trimble, Robert Ignatius Letellier
£83.99

This study examines symbolism throughout the history of opera, from its mythological roots to contemporary works. It analyzes how allegory, metaphor, and imagery impart the enduring mystic and meaning of this rich genre, while reflecting on its future.

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The Ballets of Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£39.99

Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.

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The Ballets of Ludwig Minkus

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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Ludwig Minkus is one of music’s biggest mysteries. An influential composer for Imperial Russia’s ballet, he was scorned by critics. Now his works Don Quixote and La Bayadère are taking the world by surprise. This study discovers the man behind the powerful music.

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The Bible and the Religions of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.

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The Bible as Revelatory Word

2 Scripture as Providential Text (Late Old Testament Narrative)
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£52.99

This collection looks at a narrative view of the history of Ancient Israel, in stories written in the late Old Testament to reflect on the tribulations of the people in captivity. It illustrates how God’s ways are sought amidst defeat and confusion and amidst fear and hope.

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The Bible as Revelatory Word

1 Scripture as Oracular Text (The Prophetic and Wisdom Traditions)
By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£47.99

An opportunity is provided in this volume to study the Prophets and Wisdom Books of Scripture. The research presents some approaches used in biblical scholarship and encourages reading the texts themselves, developing a sharper perception of language, imagery, genre and style.

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The Bible in Music

By: Robert Ignatius Letellier
£70.99

Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.

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