Jane Fulcher

The Nation's Image

French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521529433
• ISBN-10: 0521529433
• Artikelnr.: 21627293

Inhaltsangabe

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.