Backstage at the Revolution :how the royal Paris Opera survived the end of the Old Regime
- 作者: Johnson, Victoria,
- 出版: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2008.
- 稽核項: xv, 281 p., 8 p. of plates :ill. (some col.) ;24 cm.
- 標題: Opera , Opera de Paris History , Opera France -- Paris , Opera de Paris , History
- ISBN: 0226401952 , 9780226401959
- 附註: 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index. The past in the present. Foundings ; Trajectories -- The storming of the opera. On the eve of revolution ; The struggle for the opera -- The perpetuation of privilege. The city and the theaters ; The victory of privilege -- Orpheus on the Seine. Opening night at the Palais-Royal ; The founding of the Paris Opera -- An academy for opera. Why an academy? ; The hybrid opera -- Opera de luxe. The second coming of the Paris Opera ; Luxurious Lully -- The phantom founders. Luxury and privilege at the opera after Perrin and Lully ; The war of luxury and simplicity.
- 系統號: 005060945
- 資料類型: 圖書
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On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history. Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots of the Opera’s survival in its identity as a uniquely privileged icon of French culture—an identity established by the conditions of its founding one hundred years earlier under Louis XIV. Johnson’s rich cultural history moves between both epochs, taking readers backstage to see how a motley crew of singers, dancers, royal ministers, poet entrepreneurs, shady managers, and the king of France all played a part in the creation and preservation of one of the world’s most fabled cultural institutions.
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