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Operatic Geographies - The Place of Opera and the Opera House (Paperback)
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Operatic Geographies - The Place of Opera and the Opera House (Paperback)
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Since its origin, opera has been identified with the performance
and negotiation of power. Once theaters specifically for opera were
established, that connection was expressed in the design and
situation of the buildings themselves, as much as through the
content of operatic works. Yet the importance of the opera house's
physical situation, and the ways in which opera and the opera house
have shaped each other, have seldom been treated as topics worthy
of examination. Operatic Geographies invites us to reconsider the
opera house's spatial production. Looking at opera through the lens
of cultural geography, this anthology rethinks the opera house's
landscape, not as a static backdrop, but as an expression of
territoriality. The essays in this anthology consider moments
across the history of the genre, and across a range of geographical
contexts--from the urban to the suburban to the rural, and from the
"Old" world to the "New." One of the book's most novel approaches
is to consider interactions between opera and its
environments--that is, both in the domain of the traditional opera
house and in less visible, more peripheral spaces, from girls'
schools in late seventeenth-century England, to the temporary
arrangements of touring operatic troupes in nineteenth-century
Calcutta, to rural, open-air theaters in early twentieth-century
France. The essays throughout Operatic Geographies powerfully
illustrate how opera's spatial production informs the historical
development of its social, cultural, and political functions.
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