
The Nation's Image
French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art
Jane Fulcher(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 30. January 1987
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-521-32774-9 (ISBN)
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Description
French grand opera, this book argues, was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise, its dominance, and its final decline, Professor Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state. Using the Opera's archives, she analyses the mechanism and goals of state intervention in the theatre and how these underwent subtle change. As she demonstrates, the official framework helped to shape not only the nature of artistic development, but also politicized the theatrical experience itself. Although concerned with the audience's understanding of the operas, this book is not narrowly a 'reception history'. Rather, it is an attempt to see the part played by grand opera in a specific social and cultural context - how it arose within larger structures and in turn reacted back finally upon them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-32774-9 (9780521327749)
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Content
List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. La Muette de Portici and the new politics of opera; 2. The politics of grand opera's rise and decline; 3. Radicalization, repression, and opera: Meyerbeer's Le Prophete; 4. Politicized attacks on grand opera and the genesis of alternative models; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.