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Film, Video Americans' Forgotten Love Affair with Opera

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Title

  • Americans' Forgotten Love Affair with Opera

Summary

  • Scholar Katherine Preston looks at the prevalence of English-language opera productions in the United States in the 19th century (and the women who were the managers of many companies), and debunks the myth that only the elite attended operatic productions. Much of the preliminary research for this talk was done at the Library of Congress, utilizing its stellar collection of American music periodicals from 1860-1900. This lecture was presented as part of the ongoing American Musicological Society lecture series at the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-04-16.

Notes

  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  Katherine Preston.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-04-16.
  • -  Katherine Preston is a David N. & Margaret C. Bottoms Professor of Music, Emerita, at the College of William & Mary.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696894

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Americans' Forgotten Love Affair with Opera. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-16, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696894/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. (2019) Americans' Forgotten Love Affair with Opera. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-16. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696894/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Americans' Forgotten Love Affair with Opera. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-16, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696894/>.