Introduction

Jens Hesselager

Introduction

Institut for Kunst- og Kulturvidenskab

Abstract

The fact that French grand opera as a genre was closely connected to the institution of the Paris Opéra, and, more generally, to the contemporary urban context of Paris, has meant that scholars have often focussed specifically on understanding the phenomenon in relation to the original Parisian context. This introduction, however, argues that French grand opera, precisely because of the status of Paris as a centre of European operatic culture, contributed to a process of cultural Europeanization, as seminal works of the genre achieved European fame, often very rapidly, and were performed, translated, adapted, imitated and parodied around the continent. This is developed as a general argument for the relevance of the various studies of grand opera outside Paris included in the volume.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Grand Opera Outside Paris : Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Redaktører	Jens Hesselager
Antal sider	9
Udgivelsessted	Abingdon
Forlag	Routledge
Publikationsdato	2018
Sider	1-9
ISBN (Trykt)	978-11-138-20201-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-315-46645-3
Status	Udgivet - 2018

Navn	Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera

Emneord

Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Grand opera
Urbanization
Cultural Europeanization
Bourgeoisification
nation building
opera and language
Opera and re-contextualization
Globalization of opera
Global History
Meyerbeer
Daniel Auber
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Historiography of French Grand Opera

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