The Musical World of Marie-Antoinette: Opera and Ballet in 18th Century Paris and Versailles by Barrington James

The Musical World of Marie-Antoinette: Opera and Ballet in 18th Century Paris and Versailles

Barrington James

266 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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For decades, eighteenth-century Paris had been declining into a baroque backwater. Spectacles at the opera, once considered fit for a king, had become "hell for the ears," wrote playwright Carlos Goldoni. Then, in 1774, with the crowning of Louis ...

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