Opera, Liberalism, and AntiSemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halevy's la Juive

Diana Hallman is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Kentucky. She is a contributing author to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera edited by David Charlton, and has written articles and reviews concerning Halévy and the politics of French grand opéra, as well as an article on the librettist Ludovic Halévy, in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1998. She was a featured speaker for the BBC's live broadcast of La Juive from the Vienna Staatsoper, 1999. Dr Hallman's research interests also include the history of American concert life and performance, and she is completing a book on turn-of-the-century Austrian-American pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.Hallman, Diana R. is the author of 'Opera, Liberalism, and AntiSemitism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Politics of Halevy's la Juive', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521038812 and ISBN 0521038812.