Grand Opera
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Grand Opera

  1. 461 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Grand Opera

About this book

The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner's "Ring, " Grand Opera is a remarkable account of management and audience response to the push and pull of tradition and reinvention. Spanning the decades between the Gilded Age and the age of new media, this story of the Met concludes by tipping its hat to the hugely successful "Live in HD" simulcasts and other twenty-first-century innovations. Grand Opera 's appeal extends far beyond the large circle of opera enthusiasts. Drawing on unpublished documents from the Metropolitan Opera Archives, reviews, recordings, and much more, this richly detailed book looks at the Met in the broad context of national and international issues and events.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780520250338
eBook ISBN
9780520958975
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Opera Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Grand Opera
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 A Matter of Boxes, 1883–1884: Bel Canto
  11. 2 Cultural Capital, 1884–1903: The German Seasons and French Opera
  12. 3 Opera Wars, 1903–1908: Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company
  13. 4 Modernity, 1908–1929: Puccini
  14. 5 Hard Times, 1929–1940: Wagner
  15. 6 Strains of War, 1940–1950: The Conductor’s Opera
  16. 7 Stage Business, 1950–1966: Verdi
  17. 8 In Transit, 1966–1975: American Opera
  18. 9 Maestro Assoluto, 1975–1990: Twentieth-Century European Opera and the Baroque
  19. 10 Patronage and Perestroika, 1990–2006: American Opera (Redux) and Slavic Opera
  20. 11 In the Age of New Media, 2006–2013
  21. Notes
  22. Index of Names, Titles, and Foreign-Language Musical Terms