De vestiging van opera als kunstvorm

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The Foundation of the Opera as Art Form. In the history of opera as an art form, opera had a few false starts -- first as merely an application of an intellectual reconstruction of the dramatic principles underlying Greek tragedy, and next as a genre serving important nonartistic purposes, lacking in intellectual, musical, and artistic content. In the development of the current operatic conventions, composer Jean-Baptiste Lully created an art form in seventeenth-century France that met the demands of the court, the bourgeoisie, and the intellectuals. Richard Wagner then attempted to adapt the opera to conform to prevailing requirements of artistic autonomy. As were other art forms, the operatic are form was confronted with the gradual rise of a dualistic structure in the artistic field with commercial art at one end and avant-garde at the other. After this period of turbulence, opera as a serious art form was restored. 73 References. Adapted from the source document.