Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Eclipsed by His Own Masterpiece 1
Chapter 2 The Boy at the Conservatory, 1848-1855 5
Chapter 3 Skill, Knowledge, and Ideas, 1855-1856 19
Chapter 4 Off to Rome for Clovis and Clotilde, 1856-1859 27
Chapter 5 Instead of a Mass, an Opera Buffa, 1859 37
Chapter 6 Vasco da Gama and Roma, 1859-1860 45
Chapter 7 Back in the Capital, 1861-1862 51
Chapter 8 Ivan the Terrible and Leila, 1863-1865 59
Chapter 9 Arrangements and Rhine Romanticism, 1865-1866 69
Chapter 10 A Gypsy in Scotland, 1866-1868 77
Chapter 11 No New Opera, but Marriage and War, 1868-1871 89
Chapter 12 Masterpieces-Jeux d'enfants and Djamileh, 1871-1872 99
Chapter 13 Successful Music for a Failed Play, 1872-1873 107
Chapter 14 Carmen, an Opéra Comique 117
Selected Bibliography 135
Title Index 137
Name Index 139
