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Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have
been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning
with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology
of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260 paintings and
photographs, most in colour, accompany the narrative. Why were
particular myths and historical events important at particular
times? Why were the same myths and historical events told in
radically different ways? In seeking answers to these questions,
this book charts how the modern West migrated from autocracy
towards liberal democracy, from theocratic absolutism towards
tolerant pluralism, from sexism towards gender equality. It traces
growing scepticism about religiously inspired warfare and colonial
empire building. Unlike anything previously published, this is a
book for lovers of history and the arts, and for anyone interested
in how the western world of today came into being. By exploring a
bewitchingly beautiful art form, it chronicles a sequence of
extraordinary transformations: the political, religious and social
revolutions that created the modern West.
Since the first performance of the first opera in 1600, operas have
been telling stories from myth and history. This book - beginning
with the Creation and ending in the present day - is a chronology
of myth and history as told in opera. Over 260 paintings and
photographs, most in colour, accompany the narrative. Why were
particular myths and historical events important at particular
times? Why were the same myths and historical events told in
radically different ways? In seeking answers to these questions,
this book charts how the modern West migrated from autocracy
towards liberal democracy, from theocratic absolutism towards
tolerant pluralism, from sexism towards gender equality. It traces
growing scepticism about religiously inspired warfare and colonial
empire building. Unlike anything previously published, this is a
book for lovers of history and the arts, and for anyone interested
in how the western world of today came into being. By exploring a
bewitchingly beautiful art form, it chronicles a sequence of
extraordinary transformations: the political, religious and social
revolutions that created the modern West.
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Shy (Hardcover)
E-V And Simone Banks
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