A ópera na vida cultural lisbonense do Romantismo

Authors

  • José-Augusto França

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.161

Abstract

The S. Carlos Opera House reopened at the end of the civil war in January 1834 as a sign of the new liberal times, new tastes, habits and fashions. Soon the sets by Cinatti and Rambois animated the performances that the opulent Count of Farrobo assumed as impresario-patron. A theatre for spoken drama, wanted by Garrett, the D. Maria II, was inaugurated in the Rossio in 1846, in the same neoclassical style of the S. Carlos half a century earlier - and between the two theatres and the Passeio Público, made fashionable by the consort king Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, and the permanent experience of the Chiado, «the capital of Lisbon» and its cafes and restaurants near the Opera House, the life of the romantic city was defined in the leisurely occupations of the bourgeoisie. ln them the S. Carlos, with its intrigues of prime donne and contracts, dilettantti and partisan newspapers, polarized its role, which was illustrated in literature from Júlio César Machado and A.P. Lopes de Mendonça up until Eça de Queiroz.

Author Biography

José-Augusto França

JOSÉ-AUGUSTO FRANÇA obtained his doctorate in History from the University of Paris-Sorbonne with a dissertation on Une ville des Lumières: la Lisbonne de Pombal (1965) and his doctorate ès-Lettres with a dissertation on Le Romantisme au Portugal (1969). He was one of the organizers of the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa, director of the joumals Unicórnio and Colóquio-Artes and of the Centro Cultural Português de Paris of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and has retired as Professor of Art History of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Of his vast and distinguished output as an art critic and historian mention should be made of, among other works, A arte em Portugal no século XIX (1967), A arte e a sociedade portuguesa do século XX (1972), O Romantismo em Portugal (1975), História da arte ocidental-178D-1980 (1987) e Os anos vinte em Portugal (1992). He is an honorary member of the Comité International d'Histoire de l’Art, the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa and the Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, of which he was the president. He is an honorary president of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

França, J.-A. (2014). A ópera na vida cultural lisbonense do Romantismo. Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 199–202. https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.161

Issue

Vol 7/8 (1997-1998)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)