The Nation's Image
The Nation's Image
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GBPFrench grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Using the Opera's archives, she analyses the mechanism and goals of state intervention in the theatre and how these underwent subtle change. As she demonstrates, the official framework helped to shape not only the nature of artistic development, but also politicized the theatrical experience itself. Although concerned with the audience's understanding of the operas, this book is not narrowly a 'reception history'. Rather, it is an attempt to see the part played by grand opera in a specific social and cultural context - how it arose within larger structures and in turn reacted back finally upon them.
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August 2002Paperback
9780521529433
292 pages
216 × 140 × 17 mm
0.41kg
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. La Muette de Portici and the new politics of opera
- 2. The politics of grand opera's rise and decline
- 3. Radicalization, repression, and opera: Meyerbeer's Le Prophète
- 4. Politicized attacks on grand opera and the genesis of alternative models
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
