1st Edition
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850 Exchanges and Tensions
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions maps some of the many complex and vivid connections between art, theatre, and opera in a period of dramatic and challenging historical change, thereby deepening an understanding of familiar (and less familiar) artworks, practices, and critical strategies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period, new... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley; Hearing through the eye in eighteenth-century French Opera, David Charlton; Nihil per saltum: chiaroscuro in eighteenth-century lyric theatre, Mark Darlow; Musical mutualism: David, Degotti and operatic painting, Mark Ledbury; Music, theatre, and the Gothic imaginary: visualising the ’Bleeding Nun’, Thomas Grey; Belshazzar’s Feast and the operatic imagination, Sarah Hibberd; Romantic painters as costumiers: the stage as pictorial battlefield, Olivia Voisin; Delaroche off stage, Stephen Bann; Performers and spectators: viewing Delaroche, Patricia Smyth; Delaroche and the drama of history: gesture and impassivity from The Children of Edward IV to Marie-Antoinette at the Tribunal, Beth S. Wright; Playing with excess: Maria Malibran as Clari at the Théâtre Italien, Céline Frigau Manning; All mixed up: Etienne-Jean Delécluze and the théâtral in art and criticism, Richard Wrigley; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Sarah Hibberd is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Richard Wrigley is Professor of Art History at the University of Nottingham, UK.
