Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution

by Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson

In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women composers and librettists gained access to concert halls as never before, some of their works among those most performed in Paris. Jacqueline Letzter and Robert Adelson's engaging history explains what made this possible. At the same time it demonstrates how the Revolution fostered many dreams and ambitions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520226534
• ISBN13: 9780520226531
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"