Author: William Loran Crosten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521646833
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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Author: Jane Fulcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Professor Fulcher argues that French grand opera was a subtly used tool of the state.

Author: Sarah Hibberd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885620
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Closely examining five French operas, this book reveals how and why grand opera sought to bring the past alive.

Author: William L. Crosten
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Author: Anastasia Belina-Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317039556
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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The study of the business of opera has taken on new importance in the present harsh economic climate for the arts. This book presents research that sheds new light on a range of aspects concerning marketing, audience development, promotion, arts administration and economic issues that beset professionals working in the opera world. The editors' aim has been to assemble a coherent collection of essays that engage with a single theme (business), but differ in topic and critical perspective. The collection is distinguished by its concern with the business of opera here and now in a globalized market. This includes newly commissioned operas, sponsorship, state funding, and production and marketing of historic operas in the twenty-first century.

Author: William Loran Crosten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Roger Parker
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198166979
Category : Ballet
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This book is among the first to examine French opera and ballet criticism during the first half of the nineteenth century both as a historical and a literary phenomenon. It thus provides a new and badly needed perspective for scholars and other commentators who have often been willing to treatthe journalistic responses to such musical genres chiefly as a simple source of factual information. The essays, taken from a conference in Oxford in 1996, explore the kinds of problem encountered and the types of methodology that might be employed in trying to interpret these critical responses;they throw light on such aspects as the cultural attitudes underlying the writers' rhetoric, the aesthetic stances and ideological agendas at play, and how modes of production influenced content.

Author: Mark Everist
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100093912X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Nineteenth-century Paris attracted foreign musicians like a magnet. The city boasted a range of theatres and of genres represented there, a wealth of libretti and source material for them, vocal, orchestral and choral resources, to say nothing of the set designs, scenery and costumes. All this contributed to an artistic environment that had musicians from Italian- and German-speaking states beating a path to the doors of the Académie Royale de Musique, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre Italien, Théâtre Royal de l'Odéon and Théâtre de la Renaissance. This book both tracks specific aspects of this culture, and examines stage music in Paris through the lens of one of its most important figures: Giacomo Meyerbeer. The early part of the book, which is organised chronologically, examines the institutional background to music drama in Paris in the nineteenth century, and introduces two of Meyerbeer's Italian operas that were of importance for his career in Paris. Meyerbeer's acculturation to Parisian theatrical mores is then examined, especially his moves from the Odéon and Opéra-Comique to the opera house where he eventually made his greatest impact - the Académie Royale de Musique; the shift from Opéra-Comique is then counterpointed by an examination of how an indigenous Parisian composer, Fromental Halévy, made exactly the same leap at more or less the same time. The book continues with the fates of other composers in Paris: Weber, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner, but concludes with the final Parisian successes that Meyerbeer lived to see - his two opéras comiques.

Author: Norman
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004651624
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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