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Vasilyeva, Laura

 
9780226844466: Opera and the Built Environment
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ISBN 10: 0226844463 ISBN 13: 9780226844466
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2025

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The first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context.
 
In Opera and the Built Environment, music scholar Laura Vasilyeva considers the remarkable mass construction of opera houses around the world since the 1800s and the no-less-remarkable bids to standardize the architectural features of their interiors across this vast theatrical infrastructure. Now known as the teatro all’italiana, this style of architecture―made most famous by Milan’s Teatro alla Scala―is characterized by auditoria with tiers of stacked boxes and a dominant red hue.
 
With attention to the sensuous dimensions of their auditoria, from their surfaces to their atmospheres to their acoustics and thresholds, Vasilyeva reveals the calculated reasons these theaters took on the form they did. The result is a book that reveals unknown associations between the Italian opera house and matters of environmental destruction, empire, and belonging, showing us new and unexpected patterns in how opera connects to the world we know.

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226844463
ISBN 13 
9780226844466
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
192
Contatto del produttore
The University of Chicago Press
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