Mamontov's Private Opera : the search for modernism in Russian theater / Olga Haldey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haldey, Olga, 1972-

Series:

Russian music studies.

Russian music studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Russia (Federation)--Moscow--19th century.

Opera.

Moskovskai︠a︡ Chastnai︠a︡ Opera.

Mamontov, Savva Ivanovich, 1841-1918.

Mamontov, Savva Ivanovich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Moscow Private Opera, founded, sponsored, and directed by Savva Mamontov (1841--1918), was one of Russia's most important theatrical institutions at the dawn of the age of modernism. It presented the Moscow premieres of Lohengrin, La Bohème, and Khovanshchina, among others; launched the career of Feodor Chaliapin; gave Sergei Rachmaninov his first conducting job; employed Vasily Polenov, Victor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Mikhail Vrubel as set designers; and served as a model for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Part commercial enterprise, part experimental studio, Mamontov's company revolutionized opera directing and design, and trained a generation of opera singers. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished primary sources and evidence from art and theater history, Olga Haldey paints a fascinating portrait of a railway tycoon turned artiste and his pioneering opera company.

Contents:

The silver age and the legacy of the 1860's

Serving the beautiful

Echoes of Abramtsevo

Visual impressions

Opera as drama

From Meiningen to Meyerhold

Politics, repertory, and the market

Faces of the enterprise.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-66332-1

9786612663321

0-253-00434-9

OCLC:

646068250