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Lecturer(s)
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Kopecký Jiří, doc. PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The topic is sorted both chronologically and geographically: "gránd opera before gránd opera", Rossini and Donizetti, Meyerbeer - Robert le Diable, Les Huguenots, Halévy - Le Juive, Auber - Gustav III, ou le Bal masqué, La muette de Portici, Meyerbeer - Le prophete, L´africaine, Verdi - Don Carlos, gránd opera and R. Wagner, Berlioz - Les Troyens, gránd opera in Russia and Czech Lands
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
- Homework for Teaching
- 50 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 20 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 4 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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Grand opéra was a prevailing type of musical theater in 1830-1848 and a stable part of opera repertoary till the 1st World War. To use historical theme for an opera after a model of E. Scribe and G. Meyerbeer was tempting not only for Italian composers, but also for so-called national schools.
Student will be able to provide an analysis of different types of 19th century opera, will understand the meaning of terms tableau or aria, and will evaluate a visual art of grand opera.
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Prerequisites
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Overview on the history of European music, 19th century historical background.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Analysis of libretti and studium of specialized literature.
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Recommended literature
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Everist, Mark. (2005). Giacomo Meyerbeer and Music Drama in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Ashgate, Burlington.
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Gerhard, Anselm. (1992). Doe verstädterung der Oper. Metzler, Stuttgart.
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Ludvová, Jitka. (1984). Meyerbeer na paražském jevišti 1815-1935. Hudební věda, r. 21, č. 4, s. 365-375.
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Ottlová, Marta, Pospíšil, Milan. (1993). Meyerbeerovo operní divadlo světa v Čechách. Ústav pro hudební vědu Akademie věd České republiky, Mlejnek, Pardubice.
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Regler-Bellinger, Brigitte, Schenck, Wolfgang, Winking, Hans. (1996). Opera. Velká encyklopedie. Mladá fronta, Praha.
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Trojan, Jan. Dějiny opery, Paseka, Praha-Litomyšl 2001.
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