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Opera for the PeopleEnglish-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America$
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Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

Katherine Preston

Print publication date: 2017

Print ISBN-13: 9780199371655

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2017

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199371655.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) Introduction
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Opera for the People
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Katherine K. Preston

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199371655.003.0001

In this country, the English opera has entered the arena in good earnest, and we are inclined to think that eventually, the Italian opera will have to yield to the pressure of the English. (1872)

The principal duty is to bring Americans nearer the understanding of matters of art, to make them feel art; and we only can reach that point through operatic performances in a language they can speak themselves and can understand. (1880)...

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