Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz was present, fell in love with the Shakespearean image, and pursued it in his life and in his music.
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Fair Ophelia
A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
by Peter Raby
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A biography of the Irish born Harriet Smithson, who as an actress in Paris attracted the obsessive attention of the French composer Hector Berlioz who married her.
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Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
December 11, 2003, Cambridge University Press
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0521545803 9780521545808
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Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
January 28, 1983, Cambridge University Press
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in English
0521244218 9780521244213
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Fair Ophelia: A life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
1982, Cambridge University Press
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in English
0521244218 9780521244213
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"Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz was present, fell in love with the Shakespearean image, and pursued it in his life and in his music."
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| August 6, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
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