Grand Opera: The Story of the Met

by Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250338
• ISBN13: 9780520250338
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.6"