Center Stage: Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

by Philipp Ther

Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557536759
• ISBN13: 9781557536754
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"