Add to ORKGDuring the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontier in every town and village that had any pretense of becoming a city. Some were elegant structures of three to five stories, constructed with the hope of actually staging grand opera there; others were small theaters, often located on the second floor of a business establishment, with little chance of presenting anything grander than an occasional play; still others were simply community halls that from time to time served the function of a playhouse. All were multi-purposed facilities that became viewed as the social and cultural heart of a town and helped define its sense of community. While opera house proved a generic term, applied to a...
This thesis examines the production and reception of French opera in New Orleans in the first half o...
European grand opera performed in English translation was a potent cultural force in the United Stat...
textIn the years between 1870 and 1920, while Chicago solidified its status as “second city,” outra...
During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontie...
As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted a...
In the 1880s and 1890s small towns all over the country began erecting opera houses to hold performa...
Review of: "Encore! The Renaissance of Wisconsin Opera Houses" by Brian Leahy Doyle
Americans in the years immediately preceding the twentieth century clung to a naivete reminiscent of...
The cultural development of any community is an important part of a larger social history which has ...
Post-War of 1812 New York City was hardly prime territory for a musically elaborate, European theatr...
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of ref...
This study expands the body of knowledge of nineteenth-century American theatre, specifically, provi...
Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the early nineteenth century. Most towns...
Review of: Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Reps, John W
It is the purpose of this study to provide a written history of legitimate theatre in St. Joseph, Mi...
This thesis examines the production and reception of French opera in New Orleans in the first half o...
European grand opera performed in English translation was a potent cultural force in the United Stat...
textIn the years between 1870 and 1920, while Chicago solidified its status as “second city,” outra...
During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontie...
As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted a...
In the 1880s and 1890s small towns all over the country began erecting opera houses to hold performa...
Review of: "Encore! The Renaissance of Wisconsin Opera Houses" by Brian Leahy Doyle
Americans in the years immediately preceding the twentieth century clung to a naivete reminiscent of...
The cultural development of any community is an important part of a larger social history which has ...
Post-War of 1812 New York City was hardly prime territory for a musically elaborate, European theatr...
In 1888, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent praised Denver, Colorado, as “a metropolis, a center of ref...
This study expands the body of knowledge of nineteenth-century American theatre, specifically, provi...
Kentucky emerged as a prime site for theatrical activity in the early nineteenth century. Most towns...
Review of: Cities of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century Images of Urban Development. Reps, John W
It is the purpose of this study to provide a written history of legitimate theatre in St. Joseph, Mi...
This thesis examines the production and reception of French opera in New Orleans in the first half o...
European grand opera performed in English translation was a potent cultural force in the United Stat...
textIn the years between 1870 and 1920, while Chicago solidified its status as “second city,” outra...