Ebook: Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France
Author: Bloechl Olivia Ashley
- Genre: Art // Music
- Tags: Music, Opera, French music, Opera -- France -- 18th century, Opera -- France -- 17th century, Opera -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century, Opera -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 17th century, Opera, Opera -- Political aspects, France
- Series: Chicago scholarship online
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- City: Chicago
- Language: English
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From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In 'Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France,' however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera's Read more...