UID:
almafu_9959233696802883
Format:
1 online resource (412 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-66332-1
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9786612663321
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0-253-00434-9
Series Statement:
Russian music studies
Content:
The Moscow Private Opera, founded, sponsored, and directed by Savva Mamontov (1841--1918), was one of Russia's most important theatrical institutions at the dawn of the age of modernism. It presented the Moscow premieres of Lohengrin, La Bohème, and Khovanshchina, among others; launched the career of Feodor Chaliapin; gave Sergei Rachmaninov his first conducting job; employed Vasily Polenov, Victor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Mikhail Vrubel as set designers; and served as a model for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Part commercial enterprise, part experimental studio, Mamontov's company revolutionized opera directing and design, and trained a generation of opera singers. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished primary sources and evidence from art and theater history, Olga Haldey paints a fascinating portrait of a railway tycoon turned artiste and his pioneering opera company.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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The silver age and the legacy of the 1860's -- Serving the beautiful -- Echoes of Abramtsevo -- Visual impressions -- Opera as drama -- From Meiningen to Meyerhold -- Politics, repertory, and the market -- Faces of the enterprise.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-35468-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
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