Author: Olivia Bloechl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.
Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France
Author: Olivia Bloechl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022652289X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.
Ouverture et dialogue
Author: Ulrich Döring
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN:
Category : French Literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 854
Book Description
"Le présent volume se compose de trois parties, qui correspondent chacune aux trois domaines de recherche dans lesquels Wolfgang Leiner s'est particulièrement illustré, à savoir la littérature du XVIIe siècle, les études relatives à la réception des oeuvres littéraires et l'imagologie"--page xvi.
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN:
Category : French Literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 854
Book Description
"Le présent volume se compose de trois parties, qui correspondent chacune aux trois domaines de recherche dans lesquels Wolfgang Leiner s'est particulièrement illustré, à savoir la littérature du XVIIe siècle, les études relatives à la réception des oeuvres littéraires et l'imagologie"--page xvi.
Oraison funèbre du Très-haut, très-puissant et très-excellent prince Louis XIV, roi de France et de Navarre, prononcée en l'église cathédrale d'Evreux le 7 Novembre 1715
Author: Pierre-Charles-Fabiot Aunillon
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Oraison funèbre du Très-haut, très-puissant et très-excellent prince Louis XIV, roi de France et de Navarre, prononcée en l'église cathédrale d'Evreux le 7 Novembre 1715
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Oraison funebre de tres-haut, tres-puisssant et tres-excellent prince Louis XIV. roy de France et de Navarre,
Author: Pierre-Charles-Fabiot Aunillon
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Category : Funeral sermons
Languages : fr
Pages : 40
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Category : Funeral sermons
Languages : fr
Pages : 40
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Oraison funebre de tres haut tres puissant et tres auguste prince Louis XIV, roy de France & de Navarre, surnommé le Grand. Prononcée dans l'église cathédrale de Strasbourg le 18 novembre 1715. Par le R. pere Louis Laguille,... Pendant le service solemnel célébré par ordre du Grand Chapitre
Oraison funebre du... prince Louis XIV, roi de France et de Navarre, prononcée en l'église cathédrale d'Evreux le 7. novembre 1715. Par Mr. l'abbé Aunillon,...
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Pages : 42
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Oraison funèbre de tres-haut, tres-puissant et tres-excellent prince Louis XIV, roy de France et de Navarre, prononcée le mercredy treiziéme novembre 1715. dans l'eglise de Beauvais. Et dans l'eglise métropolitaine de Rouën le samedy 16. novembre 1715. Par monsieur l'abbé Le Prevost,...
Author: Pierre Robert Le Prévost
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Pages : 60
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