The Empire at the Opéra by Mark Everist PAPERBACK 9781108829380

The Empire at the Op\u00E9ra\nby Mark Everist\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mark Everist\nTitle: The Empire at the Op\u00E9ra\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Music\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781108829380\nISBN-10: 1108829384\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAlthough nineteenth-century legislation had tried to ensure a precise separation between genre and institution for Parisian music in the theatre, it had inadvertently laid out a field on which the politics of genre could be played out as agents and actors of all types deployed various forms of artistic power. During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state took over.