Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
Reimagining Italianita in the Long Nineteenth Century
Published on 9. March 2022
342 pages
978-1-108-92281-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of essays discusses the European and global expansion of Italian opera and the significance of this process for debates on opera at home in Italy. Covering different parts of Europe, the Americas, Southeast and East Asia, it investigates the impact of transnational musical exchanges on notions of national identity associated with the production and reception of Italian opera across the world. As a consequence of these exchanges between composers, impresarios, musicians and audiences, ideas of operatic Italianness (italianita) constantly changed and had to be reconfigured, reflecting the radically transformative experience of time and space that throughout the nineteenth century turned opera into a global aesthetic commodity. The book opens with a substantial introduction discussing key concepts in cross-disciplinary perspective and concludes with an epilogue relating its findings to different historiographical trends in transnational opera studies.
Reviews / Votes
'... the anthology navigates the long nineteenth century, Europe, the Atlantic, and the globe, in quite original ways, providing plenty of new knowledge, plenty of fine case studies, plenty of food for thought.' Jens Hesselager, H-Soz-Kult 'This is, in short, a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the means and meanings of Italian opera's global spread during the long nineteenth century, which offers up newly granular detail on many of the places it examines.' Flora Willson, Die MusikforschungMore details
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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9,17 MB
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978-1-108-92281-4 (9781108922814)
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Axel Koerner | Paulo M. Kuehl
Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
Reimagining Italianita in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
Reimagining Italianita in the Long Nineteenth Century
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03/2022
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Content
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.
