Grand Opera
Subtitle: The Story of the Met
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780520250338
Subjects: Metropolitan opera (new york, n.y.)
Description: The Metropolitan has stood among the grandest of opera companies since its birth in 1883. Tracing the offstage/onstage workings of this famed New York institution, Charles Affron and Mirella Jona Affron tell how the Met became and remains a powerful actor on the global cultural scene. In this first new history of the company in thirty years, each of the chronologically sequenced chapters surveys a composer or a slice of the repertoire and brings to life dominant personalities and memorable performances of the time. From the opening night Faust to the recent controversial production of Wagner's ...