Opera Houses of the World

Beauvert, Thierry

ISBN 10: 086565977X / ISBN 13: 9780865659773

Verlag: Vendome Pr, 1996

Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00100656863

Inhaltsangabe:

Renaissance Europe, with its humanistic impulse, may have brought the cathedral-building Middle Ages to an end, but it rechanneled the religious fervor of the old era into a new cult, the cult of opera, whose grandiose rites demanded theatres as monumental and as prominently placed as any cathedral ever built.
In Opera Houses of the World the musicologist Thierry Beauvert narrates in text and glorious image alike, the story of those fabulous buildings - the princes of the blood or of commerce who commissioned them, the architects who designed and decorated them, the composers who wrote for them, the golden-voiced singers who performed on their stages, and even the audiences who still attend performances like worshippers in sacred temples.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Opera Houses of the World
Verlag: Vendome Pr
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good