Grand Opera The Story of the Met
- Book ID
- 104471451
- Publisher
- Univ. of California Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0520958977
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โฆ Synopsis
A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : bel cantoCultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera -- Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company -- Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini -- Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner -- Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera -- Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi -- In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera -- Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque -- Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera -- In the age of new media, 2006-2013.
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