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On July 14, 1789, a crowd of angry French citizens en route to the Bastille broke into the Paris Opera and helped themselves to any sturdy weapon they could find. Yet despite its long association with the royal court, its special privileges, and the splendor of its performances, the Opera itself was spared, even protected, by Revolutionary officials. Victoria Johnson's Backstage at the Revolution tells the story of how this legendary opera house, despite being a lightning rod for charges of tyranny and waste, weathered the most dramatic political upheaval in European history.
Sifting through royal edicts, private letters, and Revolutionary records of all kinds, Johnson uncovers the roots of the Opera's survival in its identity as a uniquely privileged icon of French culture--an identity established by the conditions of its founding one hundred years earlier under Louis XIV. Johnson's rich cultural history moves between both epochs, taking readers backstage to see how a motley crew of singers, dancers, royal ministers, poet entrepreneurs, shady managers, and the king of France all played a part in the creation and preservation of one of the world's most fabled cultural institutions.

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  • Title Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime
  • Author Victoria Johnson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date 2009-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226401959 / 0226401952
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Opera - France - Paris - 17th century, Opera - France - Paris - 18th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008010502
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.509

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 04/03/2009, Page 17

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Victoria Johnson is assistant professor of organizational studies at the University of Michigan.
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