Grand opera : the story of the Met / Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron.

Author
Affron, Charles [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
xviii, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    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 ...
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 9780520250338 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    • 0520250338 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2014015091
    OCLC
    876431967
    Other standard number
    • 40024102980
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