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Photographs, illustrations, and descriptive text explore renowned opera houses around the world
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The Opera House is a plush, gilded palace where grandiose spectacles requiring vast spaces and great heights could be performed. And where the social elite could come and watch in a comfort and elegance to match. Few opera houses were without a "royal box", since they were used not only to establish the ruling class in the eyes of the people, but also as the centerpiece for honoring fellow monarchs and heads of state with appropriate pomp and ceremony. The most talented architects and designers created these grand theaters, where ostentation was the order of the day and no expense was spared. Opera Houses Of The World takes the reader on a full-color tour of the globe's great opera houses. Moving from Cairo to Sydney, Newark to Barcelona, and Santa Fe to Buenos Aires, imposing facades and stuccoed interiors, architectural plans, stage designs, and actual performances are shown. Opera Houses Of The World is for every opera buff, and every school and community library music book collection. -- Midwest Book Review
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This large-format, illustration-driven book ushers the fortunate reader through a delightful tour of opera houses from Prague to Hanoi to Buenos Aires. Underscoring the presentation is the fact that opera certainly is not outdated; as witnessed here, construction of new houses and renovation of old ones are definite features of the contemporary international opera scene. Arrangement is by "type" of house, including early houses created to accommodate opera when it first appeared during the Renaissance, special ones built and maintained by royal patronage, magnificent municipal giants that set new standards in design and elegance, and contemporary houses fashioned with an eye to the future. Fine textual accompaniment imparts the history and primary features of each structure. Brad Hooper
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- PublisherVendome Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 086565977X
- ISBN 13 9780865659773
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages277
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Hardcover. Glossy pictorial dj; red cloth covers, gilt lettering. 277 pages : illustrations (some color), plans. Renaissance Europe, with its humanistic impulse, may have brought the cathedral-building Middle Ages to an end, but it rechanneled the religious fervor of the old era into a new cult, the cult of opera, whose grandiose rites demanded theatres as monumental and as prominently placed as any cathedral ever built. In Opera Houses of the World the musicologist Thierry Beauvert narrates in text and glorious image alike, the story of those fabulous buildings - the princes of. The blood or of commerce who commissioned them, the architects who designed and decorated them, the composers who wrote for them, the golden-voiced singers who performed on their stages, and even the audiences who still attend performances like worshippers in sacred temples. Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-266) and index. Photographs by Jacques Moatti and Florian Kleinefenn. VG/G-, dj shows wear and has tears bumping top of spine. Cover clean, pages clean and tight. Seller Inventory # 180989
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