Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Opera and italianita in transnational and global perspective: An introduction Axel Koerner and Paulo Kuehl; 2. Giving singers a voice. The Italian opera company and the press in Rio de Janeiro Fernando Santos BercotI; 3. Nina d'Aubigny's 'Italian voice': A musical projection screen in German national discourse Carolin Krahn; 4. Italian opera and Creole identities: Manuel Garcia in independent Mexico (1826 - 1829) Francesco Milella; 5. Italian opera in Vormaerz Vienna: Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli and Habsburg cultural policies in the mid-1830s Claudio Vellutini; 6. Southern exchanges: Italian opera in New Orleans, 1836-42 Charlotte Bentley; 7. 'For a moment, I felt like I was back in Italy:' Early south American experiences of Italian opera singers (1840-1860) Josei Manuel Izquierdo Koenig; 8. Reimagining Rossini: Obituaries as transnational narratives of Italian opera Arnold Jacobshagen; 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 Andrew Holden; 10. Arcadia undone: Teresa Carreno's 1887 Italian opera company in Caracas Ditlev Rindom; 11. Italian impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi theatre: Sonic networks and the negotiation of opera in colonial South and Southeast Asia Rashna Darius Nicholson; 12. German national identity and operatic italianita: Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's operas on German myths Richard Erkens; 13. Fever in Belle Epoque Manaus: italianita at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 Rosie McMahon-(Opera); 14. Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa opera. In search of italianita in early Japanese opera history Michael Facius; 15. Epilogue Benjamin Walton.