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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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โœฆ 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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