Description
| Product ID: | 9781108829380 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Elements in Musical Theatre |
| Title: | The Empire at the Opera |
| Subtitle: | Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Everist |
| Page Count: | 75 |
| Subjects: | Theatre studies, Theatre studies, Theatre management, Dance, Other performing arts, Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theatre management, Dance, Other performing arts, Music, Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra's repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing theatre organisations. Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over day-to-day control of the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. Every element of the Opéra''s activity was subjugated to the exigency of Empire; the selection or artists, works and more general questions of artistic policy were handed over to politicians. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra''s repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing organisations: the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre Lyrique. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-01-21 |
