French 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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French 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.
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IT WOULD HARDLY be a novel proposition to claim that Auber's La Muette de Portici was a seminal work in the history of opera in nineteenth-century France. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operatic policies, grand repertoire, esprit frondeur, royal stage, boulevard theaters, des charges, musique ancienne, drame lyrique, minor theaters, preceding regime, political subtext, chansons populaires, grand opera, lyric theater, grand works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Huguenots, Second Empire, Second Republic, Royale de Musique, Guillaume Tell, John of Leyden, Library of Congress, Commission of Surveillance, Ministry of the Interior, Travaux Publics, French Revolution, National Guard, National Workshops, Arc de Triomphe, Armand Bertin, Bourbon Restoration, Edmond Blanc, First Republic, Louis Napoleon, Simon Deutz New!
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IT WOULD HARDLY be a novel proposition to claim that Auber's La Muette de Portici was a seminal work in the history of opera in nineteenth-century France. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
operatic policies, grand repertoire, esprit frondeur, royal stage, boulevard theaters, des charges, musique ancienne, drame lyrique, minor theaters, preceding regime, political subtext, chansons populaires, grand opera, lyric theater, grand works Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Les Huguenots, Second Empire, Second Republic, Royale de Musique, Guillaume Tell, John of Leyden, Library of Congress, Commission of Surveillance, Ministry of the Interior, Travaux Publics, French Revolution, National Guard, National Workshops, Arc de Triomphe, Armand Bertin, Bourbon Restoration, Edmond Blanc, First Republic, Louis Napoleon, Simon Deutz New!
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- Mikhail Bakhtin by Katerina Clark in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (9 Volumes)) (Music Book Index) by Sir George Grove in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and History by J. G. A. Pocock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Musical Elaborations by Edward W. Said on page 56, page 57, and Index
- Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Jacqueline Letzter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by James H. Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Régime, 1647-1785 (Cambridge Studies in Opera) by Downing A. Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Debussy and His World (Bard Music Festival Series) by Jane Fulcher in Back Matter, and Back Cover
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