{"product_id":"operatic-infrastructures-flora-willson-9780226846835","title":"Operatic Infrastructures: Materiality and Meaning in 1890s London, Paris, and New York","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London, Paris, and New York.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the end of the nineteenth century, London, Paris, and New York were quintessential modern metropolises and vital centers for opera. In \u003ci\u003eOperatic Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e, Flora Willson examines opera's roots in the material worlds of these cities. Reaching beyond histories of opera as spectacle, she investigates the physical underpinnings of opera at the century's end as an inter-urban, multimedia network. \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOperatic Infrastructures\u003c\/i\u003e considers emergent technologies such as the telephone and the subway, but it also retrieves the hidden, forgotten, and otherwise effaced traces of systems such as storage facilities and colonial trade routes. It takes seriously the mundane aspects of materiality, from the blandest clichés of newspaper columns to the fine print of insurance certificates. In doing so, the book reveals just how far these interfaces with modern urban life reached into opera's own systems of meaning-making and performance in the 1890s--making it impossible to demarcate neatly between \"opera\" and its \"context.\" Without such operatic infrastructures, Willson shows, there would be no opera at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flora Willson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226846830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226846835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2026 pg. 73","brand":"Flora Willson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48520088748287,"sku":"9780226846835","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54fc7ce5-e250-4794-84d4-08a6f39d561c.jpg?v=1778740674","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/operatic-infrastructures-flora-willson-9780226846835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}