The gilded stage : a social history of opera /: a social history of opera. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.