The fantastic genre at the Paris Opéra under Napoleon I

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01/10/2012

What form did the fantastic genre take at the Paris Opéra in the early nineteenth century, or rather under the First Empire, the reign of Napoleon I? Those ten years, from 1804 to 1814 are important not only in the history of ideas, since they mark the turning-point in France between Classicism and Romanticism, but also in the history of the Paris Opéra, which, with the accession of Napoleon, received fresh impetus through greater means and privileges, in return for close and direct control by the emperor himself.

CD-Book Rodolphe Kreutzer. La Mort d'Abel (2012). Translation: Mary Pardoe.