Inventing the Opera House: Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy - Rilegato

Johnson, Eugene J.

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ISBN 10: 1108421741 ISBN 13: 9781108421744

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Riassunto

In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures. Often they were among the most expensive artistic undertakings of a given prince. They were part of an upsurge of theatrical invention in the performing arts. At the same time, the productions that took place within the opera house could threaten the social order, to the point where rulers would raze them. Johnson reconstructs the history of the opera house by bringing together evidence from a variety of disciplines, including music, art, theatre, and politics. Writing in an engaging manner, he sets the history of the opera house within its broader early modern social context.

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Recensione:

'... sprinkled with photographs and illustrations of Italian theatres as well as architectural plans and digital reconstruction of stage interiors. The content is technical throughout, but there's just enough colour to hold the general reader's interest.' BBC Music Magazine

Descrizione del libro:

This book about the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance, treats its subject in interdisciplinary ways that involve music, art, theater, politics, and renaissance studies. Its careful scholarship is for specialists, while its clear, lively prose is for general readers. It is the only work in English on the subject.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108421741
• ISBN 13: 9781108421744
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 346