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Opera for the people : English-language opera and women managers in late 19th-century America / Katherine K. Preston.
LIBRA ML3918.O64 P74 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preston, Katherine K., author.
- Series:
- AMS studies in music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Opera.
- Opera--United States--19th century.
- Opera--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 618 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- 1 English-Language Opera in Postwar America 14
- 2 The Renaissance of English-Language Opera in America: Caroline Richings and Euphrospyne Parepa-Rosa 61
- 3 Foreign-Language Opera Is Exclusive; Vernacular Is "For the People" 154
- 4 Effie Ober and the Boston Ideal Opera Company, 1879-1885 239
- 5 Emma Abbott, the "People's Prima Donna" 311
- 6 The American Opera Company: Good Intentions, Managerial Disaster 410
- 7 English-Language Opera at the End of the Century 495.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199371655
- 0199371652
- OCLC:
- 978276041
- Publisher Number:
- 40027648287
- 99974372967
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