Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
by
Philipp Ther
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long"...