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Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France

Name: Opera and the political imaginary in old regime France
ISBN: 9780226522890

Bloechl, Olivia Ashley

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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 political theatre. 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.

Kategoriler:

Arts

Yıl:

2019

Yayımcı:

The University of Chicago Press

Dil:

english

Sayfalar:

286

ISBN 10:

022652289X