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 Articles on English opera of this era

 Articles on those involved in English opera of this era

 

 

 Articles on English opera of this era

Ahlquist, Karen.  Masculinity and legitimacy on the English musical stage: the mature male,1800-1845”, Women and Music. June 1st, 2004.

Beale, Robert.  “Opera in Manchester”.   Manchester Sounds, Volume 6, 2005-6, pp.71-97.

Bennett, Joseph.  “Victorian Music. VI. Opera”. The Musical Times, Vol.38, No.652, June 1st, 1897, pp.371-374.

Burdekin, Russell.  ‘O Vision Entrancing’
Brief summary of  a British Opera Study Day sponsored by CHOMBEC at the University of Bristol, June 12
th, 2010.

Carr, Bruce.  “The First All-Sung English 19th-Century Opera”, The Musical Times, Vol.115, No.1572, February, 1974, pp.125-126.

Choragus.  “Opera in English”.   Music and Letters,  Volume XIII, No.1, January, 1932.

Corder, Frederick A.  “Sir Henry Bishop’s Operas”.  The Musical Times, Vol.26, No.506, April 1st, 1885, pp.189-193.

Corder, Frederick A. and Henry R. Bishop.  “The Operas of Sir Henry Bishop”. The Musical Quarterly, Vol.4, No.1, January, 1918, pp. 78-97.

Edgecombe, Rodney S. “The Mountain Sylph: A Forgotten Exemplar of English Romantic Opera”. The Opera Quarterly,  Volume 18, No.1, Winter, 2002, pp.26-39.

Hartog, Dilys. “Jessy Lea and Ages Ago”. Opera,  Vol.39, No.8, August, 1988, pp.1010-1011.

Lunn, H.C. “English Opera”.  The Musical Times,  Vol.16, No. 361, March 1st, 1873, pp. 8-9.

Salaman, Charles K. “English Opera  (Continued) ”.  The Musical Times, Vol.18, No.411, May 1st, 1877, pp.211- 214.

Salaman, Charles K. “English Opera  (Concluded) ”.  The Musical Times, Vol.18, No.412,  June 1st, 1877, pp.268- 271.

Temperley, Nicholas.  “The English Romantic opera”.  in Opera 66.  ed.  Charles Osborne, pp.133-143.  London: Alan Ross, 1966.

  

 Articles on those involved in English opera of this era

Banister, Henry C. “The Life and Work of Sir G. A. Macfarren”. Proceedings of the Musical  Association, 1887-1888, pp. 67-88.

Banister, Henry C. “Sir G.A. Macfarren”. Address to the Conference of the Blind and their Friends,   July 1890, Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, MU MS 586.

Burdekin, Russell. "Sir George Alexander Macfarren, his life and his operas".  British Music Society Journal, Volume 32, 2010, pp. 84 - 108.

Davison, James, W. “George Alexander Macfarren”. The Musical World, Vol.41, No.9, February 28th, 1863,  pp.131-132.

Grant, David.  “A reappraisal of W. Vincent Wallace”.  British Music Society Journal, Volume 25, 2003, pp. 60 - 80.

Macfarren, Walter C. “Professor Sir G.A. Macfarren: A tribute in Loving Memory”. The Sunday Review, January 1888, pp.1-8.

Macfarren, Walter C.  “George Alexander Macfarren”.  The Royal Academy Magazine, Volume 1, pp.14-18.  London: Royal Academy of Music, 1900.

Pettit, Maxwell W. “Sir George Alexander Macfarren; the Compleat Victorian”. British Music Society Journal, Volume 8, 1986, pp. 26-35.

 

 

 

 

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