Art Theatre and Opera in Paris 1750-1850

<p><em>Art Theatre and Opera in Paris 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions</em> maps some of the many complex and vivid connections between art theatre and opera in a period of dramatic and challenging historical change thereby deepening an understanding of familiar (and less familiar) artworks practices and critical strategies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period new types of subject matter were shared fostering both creative connections and reflection on matters of decorum legibility pictorial and dramatic structure. Correspondances were at work on several levels: conception design and critical judgement. In a time of vigorous social political and cultural contestation the status and role of the arts and their interrelation came to be a matter of passionate public scrutiny. Scholars from art history French theatre studies and musicology trace some of those connections and clashes making visible the intimately interwoven and entangled world of the arts. Protagonists include Diderot Sedaine Jacques-Louis David Ignace-Eugène-Marie Degotti Marie Malibran Paul Delaroche Casimir Delavigne Marie Dorval the 'Bleeding Nun' from Lewis's The Monk the Comédie-Française and Etienne-Jean Delécluze.</p>