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Nation's Image French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art

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ISBN-10: 0521529433

ISBN-13: 9780521529433

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jane F. Fulcher

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Description:

French grand opera was a different and more complex kind of theater than we ordinarily suppose. Focusing on the period of grand opera's rise and its final decline, Fulcher shows that it was a subtly used tool of the state and thoroughly politicized.
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Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/8/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
La Muette de Portici and the new politics of opera
The politics of grand opera's rise and decline
Radicalization, repression, and opera: Meyerbeer's Le ProphFte
Politicized attacks on grand opera and the genesis of alternative models
Conclusion
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index