Operatic Infrastructures - Flora Willson

An exploration of the fundamental relationship between opera and urban modernity in three iconic cities: London, Paris, and New York. At the end of the nineteenth century, London, Paris, and New York were quintessential modern metropolises and vital centers for opera. In Operatic Infrastructures, 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... Zobrazit více