Fashionable acts : opera and elite culture in London, 1780-1880 / Jennifer Hall-Witt.

• Act one : Georgian patterns. Overture : fashionable acts ; Opera as an "event" : the aesthetics of audience behavior ; A subscription culture : gender and the sociopolitical foundations of opera-going ; To see and to be seen : opera and the "theater of the great" -- Act two : Victorian adaptations. Overture to act two ; The commercialization of the opera : entrepreneurs and the expansion of the public ; The refashioning of fashionable society : gender and the transformation of operatic culture ; Listening in new ways : audience behavior and the cultural politics of opera reviewing -- Finale : opera and the reform of elite culture -- Appendixes. Prices at the King's/Her Majesty's theatre, 1780s-1880 ; Prices at Covent Garden, 1847-1879 ; London's Italian opera managers, 1705-1878 ; Additional tables.

• In a reassessment of British aristocratic culture, Hall-Witt demonstrates how the transformation of audience behavior at London's Italian opera - from the sociable, interactive spectatorship of the 1780s to the quiet, polite listening of the 1870s - served as a sensitive barometer of the aristocracy's changing authority. She explores how the opera participated in the patronage culture and urban sociability of the British elite prior to the Reform Act of 1832 when the opera served as the central meeting place for the ruling class during parliamentary session 

Ämnesord

Opera  -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Opera  -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Opera  -- Political aspects -- England -- London -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Opera  -- Political aspects -- England -- London -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Elite (Social sciences)  -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Elite (Social sciences)  -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Music and aristocracy (Social class)  -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Music and aristocracy (Social class)  -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Aristocracy (Social class)  -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. (LCSH)

Aristocracy (Social class)  -- England -- London -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Musik och samhälle  -- 1700-talet (sao)

Musik och samhälle  -- 1800-talet (sao)

Opera  -- London -- 1700-talet

Opera  -- London -- 1800-talet

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ijra Operor

Klassifikation

ML3918.O64 (LCC)

306.484 (DDC)

306.4/84 (DDC)

Ijra (kssb/8)