Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 - Everist, Mark (University of California Press, 2002)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-316) and index
Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to triumph, decline, and closure