Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-213) and index.
Contents
Introducing the power brokers -- Princely pleasures : princes and power : the birthplace of European opera -- Of kings and barricades : from the heart of Versailles to the Place de la Bastille -- The disunited kingdom : London's operatic battles -- Along the Danube and the Rhine : playthings of the Austro-Hungarian and Prussian empires -- The jewel in the crown : stronger and more permanent than ideologies : why opera was retained by the Bolsheviks -- Magnificence of the met -- The commercial fable : high society, corporations and state -- The chip in the harbour -- Other operas -- Other worlds -- Back to the future?
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