Name: Opera and the Political Imaginary in old Regime France (en Inglés)
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Author: Olivia Bloechl
ISBN: 9780226522753

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in old Regime France (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

The University Of Chicago Press

Autor

Olivia Bloechl

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780226522753

N° edición

Categorías

Francia
Historia de europa

Opera and the Political Imaginary in old Regime France (en Inglés)

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From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and its ties to the crown remain at the heart of our understanding of this opera tradition (especially its foremost genre, the tragédie en musique). In Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France, however, Olivia Bloechl reveals another layer of French opera’s political theater. The make-believe worlds on stage, she shows, involved not just fantasies of sovereign rule but also aspects of government. Plot conflicts over public conduct, morality, security, and law thus appear side-by-side with tableaus hailing glorious majesty. What’s more, opera’s creators dispersed sovereign-like dignity and powers well beyond the genre’s larger-than-life rulers and gods, to its lovers, magicians, and artists. This speaks to the genre’s distinctive combination of a theological political vocabulary with a concern for mundane human capacities, which is explored here for the first time. By looking at the political relations among opera characters and choruses in recurring scenes of mourning, confession, punishment, and pardoning, we can glimpse a collective political experience underlying, and sometimes working against, ancienrégime absolutism. Through this lens, French opera of the period emerges as a deeply conservative, yet also more politically nuanced, genre than previously thought.