Inventing the Opera House

by Eugene J Johnson

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In this book, Eugene J. Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theater buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theaters 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108421741

ISBN13:9781108421744

Release Date:May 2018

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:346 Pages

Weight:2.27 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 7.4" x 10.3"

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Architecture Arts, Music & Photography Music

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