Musicologists and cultural historians have long acknowledged opera and opera houses’ importance as forums for the performance of power, whether of the monarchy or the state.1 Indeed, recognizable through their grandiose architecture and use of symbolic locations, opera houses are still often lieux de mémoire, repositories of collective memory, specially situated within the urban environment.2 Yet this situatedness, and the way that opera and the opera house have interacted with and in the formation of their physical settings, has seldom been treated as a phenomenon worthy of examination in its own right. Introduction: Opera and the (Urban) Geography of Culture suzanne aspden nderground in Buenos Aires: A Chamber Opera at U the Teatro Colón R o b er t o I g n a c i o D í a zĪcknowledgments 249 Contributors 251 Notes 255 Index 311 The Opera House as Urban Exhibition Space Retreats: Playing at Arcadia in Modern Britain 195 Open-Air Opera and Southern French Difference at the Turn of the Twentieth Century “ Come to the Mirror!” Phantoms of the Opera- Staging the City mpires in Rivalry: Opera Concerts and Foreign E Territoriality in Shanghai, 1930–1945 etween the Frontier and the French Quarter: Operatic B Travel Writing and Nineteenth-Century New Orleans 105 C h a r l o t t e Be n t l e y Masquerades: Tom and Jerry and Don Giovanni in 1820s LondonĬity Onstage: Re-Presenting Venice in Italian Opera 88 London’s Opera House in the Urban LandscapeĪnd the Carnival Entertainment Package in Eighteenth-Century Turin pera at School: Mapping the Cultural Geography of O Schoolgirl Performance Introduction: Opera and the (Urban) Geography of Culture 1 S u z a n n e As p d e n O6835 2018 | DDC 782.109-dc23 LC record available at ♾ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). | Opera-Production and direction-History. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019. Title: Operatic geographies : the place of opera and the opera house / edited by Suzanne Aspden. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Aspden, Suzanne, editor. For more information, contact the University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles and reviews. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2019 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved.
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