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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Inventing the opera house
    sub title: theater architecture in Renaissance and baroque Italy
  name:
    name part: Johnson, Eugene J.
    name part: 1937-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 330 σ. : εικ. ; 27 εκ.
  abstract: In this book, Eugene Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theatre buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theatres built to present the new art form of opera in the seventeenth. Rulers lavished enormous funds on these structures. Often they were among the most expensive artistic undertakings of a given prince. They were part of an upsurge of theatrical invention in the performing arts. At the same time, the productions that took place within the opera house could threaten the social order, to the point where rulers would raze them. Johnson reconstructs the history of the opera house by bringing together evidence from a variety of disciplines, including music, art, theatre, and politics. Writing in an engaging manner, he sets the history of the opera house within its broader early modern social context.
  table of contents: Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519 -- Rome 1480's-1520 -- Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto -- Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena -- Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte -- Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio -- Drama-tourney theaters -- Ferrara, Parma, Pesaro, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti -- Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house -- Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera -- Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.
  target audience: general
  note: Eugene J. Johnson, Williams College.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Θεατρική αρχιτεκτονική
    geographic: Ιταλία
    topic: Ιστορία
  subject:
    topic: Αρχιτεκτονική, Αναγεννησιακή
    geographic: Ιταλία
  subject:
    topic: Αρχιτεκτονική, Μπαρόκ
    geographic: Ιταλία
  classification: 725.822
  identifier: 9781108421744
  identifier: 2017034813
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240605
    record change date: 20240605142355.0
    record identifier: 19805605
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre