Grand illusion : phantasmagoria in nineteenth-century opera /
"Grand Illusion is a new history of grand opera as an art of illusion facilitated by the introduction of gaslight illumination at the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris) in the 1820s. It contends that gaslight and the technologies of illusion used in the theater after the 1820s spurred the deve...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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