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2019-01-20 14:43:47
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Born on this day in 1865 cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque Yvette Guilbert.
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-11-29 20:04:13
Toulouse-Lautrec Was One Of The Creators Of Modern Celebrity Culture — And One Of Its First Victims
“His strikingly innovative designs turned artistes such as Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert into household names, heralding the birth of celebrity culture as we know it and making a star of their creator in the process.” (And how did he become a casualty of that culture? Absinthe.)
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-11-29 20:04:13
Toulouse-Lautrec Was One Of The Creators Of Modern Celebrity Culture — And One Of Its First Victims
“His strikingly innovative designs turned artistes such as Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and Yvette Guilbert into household names, heralding the birth of celebrity culture as we know it and making a star of their creator in the process.” (And how did he become a casualty of that culture? Absinthe.)
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Royal Opera House
2015-06-17 15:36:23
How can an opera director present the melodrama of grand opera to a modern audience?
[…] emerged in the wake of the traumatic experiences of the French Revolution. Simple stories of good triumphing over evil were told, with minimal but effective musical accompaniment that established character and conveyed emotions at a stroke: (unnerving) tremolo strings, (alarming) diminished 7th chords, (dreamy) pastoral melodies and (rallying) trumpet fanfares. These were matched by equally simple gestures, stances and facial expressions. Melodrama’s power and popularity came from its directness. The leading purveyor of the genre, Guilbert de Pixérécourt , claimed that his works should be comprehensible even without the words. And Eugène Scribe , the Parisian librettist with whom composers from across Europe sought to collaborate, was also a prolific writer of melodramas. While the language of melodrama can be found in much opera of the 19th century, nowhere is it more obvious than in grand operas – as anyone who saw Robert le diable at the Royal Opera House […]
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