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Backstage at the revolution : how the Royal Paris Opera survived the end of the old regime
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- Creator
- Victoria Johnson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xv, 281 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226401959, 0226401952
- OCLC
- ocn214063628
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-268) and index.
- The past in the present. Foundings ; Trajectories -- The storming of the opera. On the eve of revolution ; The struggle for the opera -- The perpetuation of privilege. The city and the theaters ; The victory of privilege -- Orpheus on the Seine. Opening night at the Palais-Royal ; The founding of the Paris Opera -- An academy for opera. Why an academy? ; The hybrid opera -- Opera de luxe. The second coming of the Paris Opera ; Luxurious Lully -- The phantom founders. Luxury and privilege at the opera after Perrin and Lully ; The war of luxury and simplicity