The gilded stage : a social history of opera / Daniel Snowman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Atlantic, 2009.Description: xiv, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781843544661 (hbk.)
  • 1843544660 (hbk.)
  • 9781590203958
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 782.109 SNO 22
LOC classification:
  • ML1700 .S66 2009
Contents:
Part I. Down the road from Arianna to Zauberflöte (c. 1600-1800). The birth of Italian opera ; The opera business, Italian style ; Opera crosses the Alps -- and the Channel ; Cultural confluence in Mozart's Vienna -- Part II. Revolution and Romanticism, (c. 1800-1860). Napoleon and Beethoven ; After Napoleon : opera as politics, art, and business ; Opera reaches New York -- and the wider frontier ; L'Opéra ; Fires of London -- Part III. Opera Resurgens (c. 1860-1900). Culture and politics in Central and Eastern Europe ; New York's Gilded Age ; Prima la donna ; The lion tamers : the ascendancy of the conductor -- Part IV. Opera in war and peace (c. 1900-1950). Opera goes West ; Spreading the message ; Repercussions of war ; Opera under the dictators ; Total war -- Part V. The globalization of opera (c. 1945- ). Emerging from apocalypse ; Building opera in America ; Opera goes global ; New ways of presenting old works ; The show must go on.
Summary: "From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, the author explores the social history of opera houses and impresarios, composers and patrons, artists and audiences."--The publisher.
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782.109 GRO A short history of opera. 782.109 HOW A key to opera / 782.109 ROB Opera before Mozart / 782.109 SNO The gilded stage : 782.1092 BAK Full circle : 782.1092 BIN The memoirs of Sir Rudolph Bing : 782.1092 BIN A knight at the opera /

Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-470) and index.

Part I. Down the road from Arianna to Zauberflöte (c. 1600-1800). The birth of Italian opera ; The opera business, Italian style ; Opera crosses the Alps -- and the Channel ; Cultural confluence in Mozart's Vienna -- Part II. Revolution and Romanticism, (c. 1800-1860). Napoleon and Beethoven ; After Napoleon : opera as politics, art, and business ; Opera reaches New York -- and the wider frontier ; L'Opéra ; Fires of London -- Part III. Opera Resurgens (c. 1860-1900). Culture and politics in Central and Eastern Europe ; New York's Gilded Age ; Prima la donna ; The lion tamers : the ascendancy of the conductor -- Part IV. Opera in war and peace (c. 1900-1950). Opera goes West ; Spreading the message ; Repercussions of war ; Opera under the dictators ; Total war -- Part V. The globalization of opera (c. 1945- ). Emerging from apocalypse ; Building opera in America ; Opera goes global ; New ways of presenting old works ; The show must go on.

"From its origins in the courts of northern Italy, to its internationally recognised position in modern culture, the author explores the social history of opera houses and impresarios, composers and patrons, artists and audiences."--The publisher.

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