Architectural Visions of Lyric Theater and Spectatorship in Late-Eighteenth-Century France

Thomas, D

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“…In this way the combination of class and national culture combined the identity of the upper class with the ordinary citizen and formed an ideal public space for moral and civic values. Downing Thomas [6] explained in his research that Jean Starobinsk commented on the moral theme of late 18th century architectures: "In this transformation that brings architecture back to its true essence and material, the choices people see are not only aesthetic but also moral....".…”

Section: Opera In France In the 18th Centurymentioning

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A Brief Opera History of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Late 18th Century

Wu¹

2022

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Throughout the 18th century, the history of the opera has changed and the influence of opera on the audience was profound and frequent, especially in France and Holy Roman Empire. In the early 18th century, the content of operas became increasingly weak, and it was divorced from the meaning of drama since it became the carrier of national propaganda, most of which served the upper classes and nobles. This kind of opera that promoted autocracy slowly caused dissatisfaction in the audience, as a reaction, the content of opera began to promote independence, freedom, and love. In both countries, this had a more positive impact on the audience who began to desire independence, freedom, and equality. It also had an effect on political movements and historical events. This study will be divided into three main sections. It will first indicate the history of opera and the influence of opera on the audience in the 18th century in France. Secondly, it will examine the history of opera and the influence of opera on the audience in the late 18th century in Holy Roman Empire. Finally, some conclusions will be drawn, in the late 18th century, both the French and Italian operas changed and the influences on the audience changed.

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Section: Opera In France In the 18th Centurymentioning

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A Brief Opera History of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Late 18th Century

Wu¹

2022

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Jean-Nicolas Servandoni's Spectacles of Nature and Technology

Olivier¹

2005

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Theatre Optics: Enlightenment Theatre Architecture in France and the Architectonics of Husserl's Phenomenology

Camp¹

2007

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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's 1804 engraving of a human eye that encompasses a theatre auditorium points to a neglected aspect of the history of Western theatre architecture: eighteenth-century architects in France drew spatial concepts and geometric forms from optics and applied them to reformist theatre designs. This borrowing from optics shows that the stage incorporated the representation of space that dominated Enlightenment natural philosophy, and it implies that theatre spectatorship sustained a mutually formative relationship with materialist theories of consciousness. This relationship, moreover, was not confined to Enlightenment France. An analysis of Edmund Husserl's twentieth-century phenomenological writings reveals that a set of architectural traits—an architectonics—permeates his model of the conscious mind. The spectatorial orientation of the subject that organizes Husserl's work suggests that phenomenology aligns the theatrical frame with the conditions of knowledge in general.

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Architectural Visions of Lyric Theater and Spectatorship in Late-Eighteenth-Century France

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

A Brief Opera History of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Late 18th Century

A Brief Opera History of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Late 18th Century

Jean-Nicolas Servandoni's Spectacles of Nature and Technology

Theatre Optics: Enlightenment Theatre Architecture in France and the Architectonics of Husserl's Phenomenology

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