Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

by Katherine K. Preston

Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199371652
• ISBN13: 9780199371655
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 6.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"