Building the Operatic Museum: Eighteenth-Century Opera in Fin-De-Siècle Paris (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580464000)

Focusing on the operas of Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau, Building the Operatic Museum examines the role that eighteenth-century works played in the opera houses of Paris around the turn of the twentieth century. These works, mostly neglected during the nineteenth century, became the main exhibits in what William Gibbons calls the Operatic Museum -- a physical and conceptual space in which great masterworks from the past and present could, like works of visual art in the Louvre, entertain audiences while educating them in their own history and national identity. Drawing on the fields of musicology, museum studies, art history, and literature, Gibbons explores how this "museum" transformed Parisian musical theater into a place of cultural memory, dedicated to the display of French musical greatness. William Gibbons is assistant professor of musicology at Texas Christian University.

Author: William Gibbons
ISBN-10: 1580464009
ISBN-13: 9781580464000
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2013
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d