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Mamontov's Private Opera: The Search for Modernism in the Russian Theater
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Mamontov's Private Opera: The Search for Modernism in the Russian Theater. By Olga Haldey. Blooming - ton: Indiana University Press, 2010. [xiv, 354 p. ISBN 9780253354686. $44.95.] Plates, figures, chronology, list of premieres, bibliography, index.
After the revocation of the crown's monopoly on theatrical enterprises in Tsarist Russia in 1882, private opera companies mushroomed. Only one could actually compete with the crown (court) operas: the enterprise founded and owned by Savva Mamontov (1841-1918), a Muscovite merchant and heir to a large railway company. It existed from 1885 to 1888 and from 1894 to 1904; Mamontov dropped out after bankruptcy in 1900.
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