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 op
Grand Opera: The Story of the Met
โ Scribed by Affron, Charles; Affron, Mirella Jona
- Book ID
- 108270363
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780520250338
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**When the curtain goes down, the real drama begins...** The American Grand Opera has come to River Heights to perform _Tosca_ ,_Aida_ , and _The Marriage of Figaro_ , and Nancy's friend Bess is going to be a chorus extra. It's all so exciting for the girls; the costumes, the music, the glamor
Revolving around the opera, these tales are an "archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence" (W. G. Sebald) Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge's Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and their stars