{"product_id":"british-opera-in-america","title":"British Opera in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe series aims to represent all the major genres and styles of musical theater of the century, from ballad opera through melodrama, plays with incidental music, parlor entertainments, pastiche, temperance shows, ethnic theater, minstrelsy, and operetta, to grand opera. This series of sixteen volumes provides for the first time ever a comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theater in the United States of America. Volume 1 presents the earliest works in this series of \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century American Musical Theater. \u003c\/i\u003eIndeed, the two tides reprinted here were composed\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein the prior century but enjoyed a currency in the early 1800s that helped\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eestablish conventions for generations of native-born dramaturges and composers.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMoreover, \u003ci\u003eChildren in the Wood \u003c\/i\u003e1795 and \u003ci\u003eBlue Beard \u003c\/i\u003e1811 are the only two works\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eincluded in this series that were fully realized abroad, and imported for\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eperformance in the United States by musicians trained in the theaters of London.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAs editor Susan Porter points out in her Introduction, like all stage works, they\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewere then adapted to suit the tastes of the times and places in which they were\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eperformed. (Indeed, \u003ci\u003eBlue Beard \u003c\/i\u003ewas already an English adaptation of a French\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ework.)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54228910571864,"sku":"9780815313687","price":107.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780815313687.jpg?v=1770130842","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/british-opera-in-america","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}