The Fashioning of French Opera (1672-1791) – Barbara Nestola Uitverkoop

As the forerunners to the Paris Opera, the Academie d’operas (1669-1672) and the Academie royale de musique (1672-1791) inspired first historical then aesthetic research, research that appeared very steadily through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, researchers and performers alike began to change their perspective on the institution and its legacy, shifting away from the Academie’s image as a tool used in the propaganda machine and towards a …