The gilded stage : a social history of opera /: a social history of opera. (2009)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The gilded stage : a social history of opera /: a social history of opera. (2009)
- Main Title:
- The gilded stage : a social history of opera
- Further Information:
- Note: Daniel Snowman.
- Other Names:
- Snowman, Daniel
- 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 ...
- Publisher Details:
- London : Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 482 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
- Subjects:
- 306.48409
782.109
Opera -- Social aspects
Opera -- History
Opera -- History
Opera -- Social aspects
Opera
Opera -- Social aspects
Gesellschaft
Oper
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781848874367
1848874367 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781843544661
1843544660
9781590203958
159020395X
9781843544678
1843544679 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-470) and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.107676
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