Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time by Siegfried Kracauer

Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time

Siegfried Kracauer

424 pages first pub 1937 (editions)

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The fantasy realms of his operettas, occurring amid the urban renewal of Baron Haussmann and the fanfare of Universal Expositions, were on the one hand fully continuous with the unreality of Napoleon III's imperial masquerade, but on the other mad...

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