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Grand opera : the story of the Met / Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron.
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Affron, Charles
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English
Published/Created
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
©2014
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xviii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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ML1711.8.N3 M384 2014
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Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
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Affron, Mirella Jona, 1937-
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History
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Summary note
The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner's ...
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-425) and index.
Contents
A matter of boxes, 1883-1884 : Bel canto
Cultural capital, 1884-1903 : the German seasons and French opera
Opera wars, 1903-1908 : Parsifal, Salome, and the Manhattan Opera Company
Modernity, 1908-1929 : Puccini
Hard times, 1929-1940 : Wagner
Strains of war, 1940-1950 : the conductor's opera
Stage business, 1950-1966 : Verdi
In transit, 1966-1975 : American opera
Maestro Assoluto, 1975-1990 : twentieth-century European opera and the Baroque
Patronage and Perestroika, 1990-2006 : American opera (redux) and Slavic opera
In the age of new media, 2006-2013.
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ISBN
9780520250338 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0520250338 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2014015091
OCLC
876431967
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40024102980
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