The Empire at the Op駻a: Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108829380)

Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over day-to-day control of the Op ra in ways that were without precedent. Every element of the Op ra's activity was subjugated to the exigency of Empire; the selection or artists, works and more general questions of artistic policy were handed over to politicians. The Op ra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Op ra's repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing organisations: the Op ra Comique and the Th tre Lyrique.

Author: Mark Everist
ISBN-10: 1108829384
ISBN-13: 9781108829380
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2021
Pages: 75
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d