Opera in Paris from the Empire to the Commune

by Mark Everist

Book Overview

Studies in the history of French nineteenth-century stage music have blossomed in the last decade, encouraging a revision of the view of the primacy of Austro-German music during the period and rebalancing the scholarly field away from instrumental music (key to the Austro-German hegemony) and towards music for the stage. This change of emphasis is having an impact on the world of opera production, with new productions of works not heard since...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138065161
• ISBN13: 9781138065161
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"