The Empire at the Opera : Theatre, Power and Music in Second Empire Paris
by
Mark Everist
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Elements in Musical Theatre
ISBN-10
1108829384
ISBN-13
9781108829380
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 21st, 2021
Print length
75 Pages
Weight
128 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 0.80 cms
Product Classification:
Theatre studiesTheatre managementDanceOther performing artsMusic
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During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra's repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing theatre organisations.
Although nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over day-to-day control of the Opéra in ways that were without precedent. Every element of the Opéra''s activity was subjugated to the exigency of Empire; the selection or artists, works and more general questions of artistic policy were handed over to politicians. The Opéra effectively became a branch of government. The result was a stagnation of the Opéra''s repertory, and beneficiaries were the composers of larger-scale works for competing organisations: the Opéra Comique and the Théâtre Lyrique.
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