Italian opera in global and transnational perspective : reimagining italianità in the long nineteenth century
Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2022
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| Schlagworte: | Opera Opera and transnationalism Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (342 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world. Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Examples -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Opera and Italianità in Transnational and Global Perspective: An Introduction -- 2 Giving Singers a Voice: The Italian Opera Company and the Press in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1831 -- 3 Nina d'Aubigny's 'Italian Voice': A Musical Projection Screen in German National Discourse -- 4 Italian Opera and Creole Identities: Manuel García in Independent Mexico (1826-1829) -- 5 Italian Opera in Vormärz Vienna: Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli and Habsburg Cultural Policies in the Mid-1830s -- 6 Southern Exchanges: Italian Opera in New Orleans, 1836-1842 -- 7 'For a Moment, I Felt Like I Was Back in Italy': Early South American Experiences of Italian Opera Singers (1840-1860) -- 8 Reimagining Rossini: Obituaries as Transnational Narratives of Italian Opera -- 9 From Heaven and Hell to the Grail Hall via Sant'Andrea della Valle: Religious Identity and the Internationalisation of Operatic Styles in Liberal Italy -- 10 Arcadia Undone: Teresa Carreño's 1887 Italian Opera Company in Caracas -- 11 Italian Impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi Theatre: Sonic Networks and the Negotiation of Opera in Colonial South and South East Asia -- 12 German National Identity and Operatic Italianità: Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's Operas on German Myths -- 13 (Opera) Fever in Belle Époque Manaus: Italianità at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 -- 14 Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa Opera: In Search of Italianità in Early Japanese Opera History -- 15 Epilogue -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (342 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108922814 1108922813 9781108843867 1108843867 |