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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.
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.
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
In this paper, I will address the evolution of American musical theatre and its lesser-known beginnings. The roots of American musical theatre extend back to a handful of European nations in the 1850s with the rise of the European operetta. The Merriam-Webster
The first opera by an American composer and the first opera in English ever performed at the Met was Frederick R. Converse’s The Pipe of Desire (pictured above) in 1910. Perhaps as a measure of box office safety, it was a one-act piece that shared a double bill with Pagliacci—as several new works would in the future. The story line ...
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.
