French Baroque Opera: A Reader - Hardcover

Wood, Caroline; Sadler, Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840142413 ISBN 13: 9781840142419

Verlag: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

From the outset, French opera generated an enormous diversity of literature, familiarity with which enhances our understanding of this unique art form. Yet relatively little of that literature is available in English, despite an upsurge of interest in the Lully-Rameau period. This is a wide-ranging picture of the organization and evolution of French baroque opera, its aims and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on official documents, theoretical writings, letters, diaries, dictionary entries, contemporary reviews and commentaries, it provides an insight into Lully's once-proud Royal Academy of Music and the colourful characters who surrounded it. The translated passages are set in context, and readers are directed to further scholarly and critical writings in English.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ashgate Publishing Limited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840142413
• ISBN 13: 9781840142419
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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