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Inventing the Opera House - Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Hardcover)
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Inventing the Opera House - Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy (Hardcover)
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In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera
house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the
foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces
invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and
theaters built to present the new art form of opera in the
seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures.
Often they were among the most expensive artistic undertakings of a
given prince. They were part of an upsurge of theatrical invention
in the performing arts. At the same time, the productions that took
place within the opera house could threaten the social order, to
the point where rulers would raze them. Johnson reconstructs the
history of the opera house by bringing together evidence from a
variety of disciplines, including music, art, theatre, and
politics. Writing in an engaging manner, he sets the history of the
opera house within its broader early modern social context.
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