TY - BOOK ID - 77921123 TI - Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable PY - 2012 SN - 0838640931 1443845515 9781443845519 1299646158 9781299646155 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Opera KW - Comic opera KW - Lyric drama KW - Opera, Comic KW - Operas KW - Drama KW - Dramatic music KW - Singspiel KW - Analysis, appreciation. KW - History and criticism KW - Meyerbeer, Giacomo, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77921123 AB - Robert le Diable by Giacomo Meyerbeer is regarded as a musical milestone, a definitive statement in the 19th-century development of French grand opéra from the tragédie lyrique of Lully, Rameau, Gluck and Spontini. The libretto by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne was derived from the medieval legend of "Robert the Devil". First performed on 21 November 1831 at the Paris Opéra, the work brought Meyerbeer international celebrity. Robert le Diable remains a legend in the annals of opera. The... ER -