| Description |
xxxii, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in opera
|
|
Cambridge studies in opera.
|
| Note |
Developed from a conference organised by the Social Science Research Council. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-394) and index. |
| Contents |
Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. Fulcher -- State and market, production and style : an interdisciplinary approach to eighteenth-century Italian opera history / Franco Piperno -- Opera and the cultural authority of the capital city / William Weber -- "Edizioni distrutte" and the significance of operatic choruses during the Risorgimento / Philip Gossett -- Opera in France, 1870-1914 : between nationalism and foreign imports / Christophe Charle -- Fascism and the operatic unconscious / Michael P. Steinberg and Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg -- On opera and society (assuming a relationship) / Herbert Lindenberger -- Symbolic domination and contestation in French music : shifting the paradigm from Adorno to Bourdieu / Jane F. Fulcher -- Rewriting history from the losers' point of view : French grand opera and modernity / Antoine Hennion -- Conclusion : towards a new understanding of the history of opera? / Thomas Ertman. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Social aspects -- Italy.
|
|
Opera -- Social aspects. |
|
Italy. |
|
Opera. |
|
Opera -- Social aspects -- France.
|
|
France. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
|
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Added Author |
Johnson, Victoria, 1969-
|
|
Fulcher, Jane F.
|
|
Ertman, Thomas.
|
| ISBN |
9780521856751 |
|
0521856752 |
|
0511277636 |
|
9780511277634 |
|
0511278225 |
|
9780511278228 |
|
