Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France write by Olivia Bloechl. This book was released on 2018-03-01. Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.
Staging the French Revolution
Staging the French Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging the French Revolution write by Mark Darlow. This book was released on 2012-05-03. Staging the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) in the cultural and political context of the early French Revolution. Both institutional history and cultural study, this is the first ever full-scale study of the Revolution and lyric theatre. The book concentrates on three aspects of how a royally-protected theatre negotiates the transition to national theatre: the external dimension, such as questions of ownership and governance and the institution's relationship with State institutions and popular assemblies; the internal management, finances, selection and preparation of works; and the cultural and aesthetic study of the works themselves and of their reception. In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment. Combining recent approaches to institutions, sociability, and authors' rights with cultural studies of opera, Staging the French Revolution takes a historically grounded and methodologically innovative cross-disciplinary approach to opera and persuasively re-evaluates the long-standing, but rather sterile, concept of propaganda.
Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France
Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France write by Hedy Law. This book was released on 2020. Music, Pantomime and Freedom in Enlightenment France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did composers and performers use the lost art of pantomime to explore and promote the Enlightenment ideals of free expression?
Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press
Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press write by William Weber. This book was released on 2021. Canonic Repertories and the French Musical Press available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold application of the concept of canonical works to the development of French operatic and concert life in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France
Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France write by Fayçal Falaky. This book was released on 2021-11-12. Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play—from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself—this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of “play” in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the “Age of Reason,” providing ways for its practitioners to consider more “serious” themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.
