Mamontov's Private Opera : the search for modernism in Russian theater
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Mamontov's Private Opera : the search for modernism in Russian theater
（Russian music studies）
Indiana University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Moscow Private Opera, founded, sponsored, and directed by Savva Mamontov (1841-1918), was one of Russia's most important theatrical institutions at the dawn of the age of modernism. It presented the Moscow premieres of Lohengrin, La Boheme, and Khovanshchina, among others; launched the career of Feodor Chaliapin; gave Sergei Rachmaninov his first conducting job; employed Vasily Polenov, Victor Vasnetsov, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Korovin, and Mikhail Vrubel as set designers; and served as a model for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Part commercial enterprise, part experimental studio, Mamontov's company revolutionized opera directing and design, and trained a generation of opera singers. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished primary sources and evidence from art and theater history, Olga Haldey paints a fascinating portrait of a railway tycoon turned artiste and his pioneering opera company.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Silver Age and the Legacy of the 1860s
2. Serving the Beautiful
3. Echoes of Abramtsevo
4. Visual Impressions
5. Opera as Drama
6. From Meiningen to Meyerhold
7. Politics, Repertory, and the Market
8. Faces of the Enterprise
Appendix A. Brief Chronology of Savva Mamontov's Life and Career
Appendix B. Selected Premieres and Revivals at the Moscow Private Opera
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Works Cited
Index
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