Blick ins Buch Once Upon a Time at the Opera House: Drama at Three Historic Michigan Theaters, 1882-1928 - James Berton Harris

James Berton Harris

Once Upon a Time at the Opera House: Drama at Three Historic Michigan Theaters, 1882-1928

Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 250 Seiten
ISBN 1611863015
EAN 9781611863017
Veröffentlicht Februar 2019
Verlag/Hersteller Michigan State University Press
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Beschreibung

The importance of opera houses to the cultural and community life in nonmetropolitan areas of the country from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the advent of motion pictures in the 1920s has seldom been documented. The stories the reader will encounter here--related with a healthy dose of humor--are based on historical facts, anecdotes, urban legends, and tall tales associated with three of the more than one hundred opera houses that existed in Michigan during this period. As there are similar stories about similar structures throughout Michigan as well as in other Midwestern and Western states, this could be considered a storybook about the golden age of opera houses in many of America's rural regions.

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JAMES BERTON HARRIS is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre at University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He has been active in both academic and professional theatre for more than forty-five years.