Les filles de l'Opéra in the Early Eighteenth Century
Contributors: Rehding, Alexander; Hunter, Mary; Guyot, Sylvaine
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: Celebrated or berated as scandalous presences on and off the operatic stage, the Parisian singers and dancers known as les filles de l'Opéra endured some of the most heated cultural critiques of the early eighteenth century. Jérôme de La Gorce and Georgia Cowart have assessed the controversial morality of the filles de l'Opéra, yet musicologists have not explored critiques of these women for what they reveal about historical mentalities, from ideas about performance as possession or effacement, absorption or theatricality, to the doubt into which the operatic genre itself was cast.
Notes: Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013