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Grand Opera Outside Paris - Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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Grand Opera Outside Paris - Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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Nineteenth-century French grand opera was a musical and cultural
phenomenon with an important and widespread transnational presence
in Europe. Primary attention in the major studies of the genre has
so far been on the Parisian context for which the majority of the
works were originally written. In contrast, this volume takes
account of a larger geographical and historical context, bringing
the Europe-wide impact of the genre into focus. The book presents
case studies including analyses of grand opera in small-town
Germany and Switzerland; grand operas adapted for Scandinavian
capitals, a cockney audience in London, and a court audience in
Weimar; and Portuguese and Russian grand operas after the French
model. Its overarching aim is to reveal how grand operas were used
- performed, transformed, enjoyed and criticised, emulated and
parodied - and how they became part of musical, cultural and
political life in various European settings. The picture that
emerges is complex and diversified, yet it also testifies to the
interrelated processes of cultural and political change as
bourgeois audiences, at varying paces and with local variations,
increased their influence, and as discourses on language, nation
and nationalism influenced public debates in powerful ways.
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