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Cambridge University Press The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

Name: The Nation's Image: French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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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. 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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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521529433
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Opera
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 October 2010
Listed Since: 04 January 2007

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