The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera
Author(s): Daniel Snowman
The first and only global social history of the world's most romantic, flamboyant, glamorous and politically influential art-form: opera.
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'A mighty achievement, by far and away the best history of opera available.' Tim Blanning, Literary Review
Daniel Snowman was born in London. A Lecturer at Sussex University in his twenties, he went on to work at the BBC where he was responsible for a wide variety of radio series on cultural and historical topics. A long-time member of the London Philharmonic Choir, and currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), his books include critical portraits of the Amadeus Quartet and Placido Domingo and, more recently, Historians and a study of the cultural impact of The Hitler Emigres.
General Fields
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- : Atlantic Books
- : Atlantic Books
- : November 2010
- : United Kingdom
- : January 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Daniel Snowman
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 782.109
- : 496
- : Music