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03930aam a2200421 i 4500 001 A8A860AA840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170314s2017 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017012245 020 $a 0199371652 020 $a 9780199371655 035 $a (OCoLC)978276041 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d RES $d YUS $d OKX $d OCLCA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a ML3918.O64 $b P74 2017 082 00 $a 792.5082/0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Preston, Katherine K., $e author. 245 10 $a Opera for the people : $b English-language opera and women managers in late 19th-century America / $c Katherine K. Preston. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xxix, 618 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a AMS studies in music 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a English-Language Opera in Post-War America -- The Renaissance of English-Language Opera in America: Caroline Richings and Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa -- Foreign-Language Opera is Exclusive; Vernacular is 'For the People' -- Effie Over and the Boston Ideal Opera Company, 1879-1885 -- Emma Abbot, the 'People's Prima Donna' -- The American Opera Company: Good Intentions, Managerial Disaster -- English-Language Opera at the End of the Century. 520 $a "Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy."--Publisher's description. 650 0 $a Opera $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Opera $z United States $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Opera. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01046145 650 7 $a Opera $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01046168 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a AMS studies in music. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214021049.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010011236.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A8A860AA840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search