{"id":1246,"date":"2017-11-29T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripm.org\/cnc\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2018-02-09T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T21:35:07","slug":"ripms-illustration-of-the-weekmaking-waves-at-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"RIPM\u2019s \u201cIllustration of the Week\u201dMaking Waves at the Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week\u2019s illustrations feature three\u00a019th-<\/sup>century images offering a unique operatic vision from the depths of the ocean and from above its surface. For an 1843 production of the now obscure three-act opera, Le naufrage h\u00e9ro\u00efque du vaisseau, Le Vengeur<\/em> (The Heroic Sinking of the Ship, The Avenger), this is how extras at the Cirque-Olympique created the illusion of a calm sea \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The calm of the sea
\nL’Illustration<\/em>, Vol. II (23 December 1843): 261.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u2026 and one turned violent.<\/p>\n

\"\"The rough sea
\nIbid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though there were many technological advances on the stage during the 19th-<\/sup>century, by 1866, charting the seas was not one of them.<\/div>\n
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\"\"L\u2019Illustration,\u00a0<\/em>Vol. XLVIII (29 September 1866): 205. <\/span><\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s illustrations feature three\u00a019th-century images offering a unique operatic vision from the depths of the ocean and from above its surface. For an 1843 production of the now obscure three-act opera, Le naufrage h\u00e9ro\u00efque du vaisseau, Le Vengeur (The Heroic Sinking of the Ship, The Avenger), this is how extras at the Cirque-Olympique created […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnc.ripm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}