Opera and the Built Environment Structure & Design for drawing and dreaming

for drawing and dreaming

In this book

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but it is largely intangible and absent from accounts of what came before us

Opera and the Built Environment Structure & Design for drawing and dreamingThe first book to examine the classic Italian opera house in a global context. In Opera and the Built Environment, music scholar Laura Vasilyeva considers the remarkable mass construction of opera houses around the world since the 1800s and the no less remarkable bids to standardize the architectural features of their interiors across this vast theatrical infrastructure. Now known as the teatro allitaliana, this style of architecturemade most famous