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Music and Letters 2002 83(1):75-105; doi:10.1093/ml/83.1.75
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Zola the Sower

Steven Huebner

As he completed his great cycle of Rougon-Macquart novels, the writer Émile Zola became preoccupied by the theme of fertility and demographic politics in France. These issues became an important component of the opera Messidor (Opéra, 1897), for which Zola supplied the libretto and Alfred Bruneau the music. The article explores how Zola and Bruneau aestheticized the issue of fertility and also considers the political resonances of the opera, taking into account its repertorial context.


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