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LEADER: 02195nam a22003498a 4500
001 2007012629
003 DLC
005 20070409142639.0
008 070330s2007 nhu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2007012629
020 $a9781584656258 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a1584656255 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aML3918.O64$bH34 2007
082 00 $a306.4/84$222
100 1 $aHall-Witt, Jennifer.
245 10 $aFashionable acts :$bopera and elite culture in London, 1780-1880 /$cJennifer Hall-Witt.
260 $aDurham, N.H. :$bUniversity of New Hampshire Press,$c2007.
263 $a0706
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aBecoming modern
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
505 0 $aAct 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. Prices at the King's/Her Majesty's theatre, 1780s-1880 ; Prices at Covent Garden, 1847-1879 ; London's Italian opera managers, 1705-1878.
650 0 $aOpera$xSocial aspects$zEngland$zLondon$y18th century.
650 0 $aOpera$xSocial aspects$zEngland$zLondon$y19th century.
650 0 $aOpera$xPolitical aspects$zEngland$zLondon$y18th century.
650 0 $aOpera$xPolitical aspects$zEngland$zLondon$y19th century.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAristocracy (Social class)$zEngland$zLondon$xSocial life and customs$y18th century.
650 0 $aAristocracy (Social class)$zEngland$zLondon$xSocial life and customs$y19th century.