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1 wrz 2020 · This book--the first comprehensive cultural and social history of musical theater in the United States--includes vignettes of productions, personalities, audiences, and theaters throughout the country from 1735 to the present day.
Opera, Opera's, Zangers, Opéra, Oper, Operas History, United States, Opera -- United States, Opéra -- États-Unis, Opéra -- Aspect social -- États-Unis, USA Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press Collection printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 900993418
8 gru 2020 · The Operatic Archive explores opera’s potential as a means of historical kno wing, grounding its arguments in a number of operas based on historical subjects. The work is divided into five...
The roster of operas at Milan's La Scala in 1829, how-ever, demonstrates that both his serious and his comic operas still dominated the repertory. The Carnival season, which started on 26 December 1828, opened as always with a serious opera - his L'assedio di Corinto (The Siege of Corinth, first performed, as Le Siege de Co-
The first lays out what one sees and hears at an opera: how people dress, both cast members and audience; the design and acoustics of the house; and the types of music heard (solo arias, ensembles, orchestral music, dance). He draws examples from various operas to illustrate his points.
4 lut 2020 · Introduction -- The lyric theater of the Greeks -- Medieval dramatic music -- The immediate forerunners of opera -- The beginnings : opera in Florence and Mantua -- Other early seventeenth-century Italian court operas, including the first comic operas in Florence and Rome -- Italian opera in the later seventeenth century in Italy -- Seventeenth ...
13 maj 2008 · The purpose of these issues is to open the field of inquiry into operas and operatic imitations, styles, inventions, institutions and publics across the Americas, and the politics through which Americanism in opera was formulated.
