Pasticcio Opera in Britain
History and Context
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 2024
416 pages
978-1-5261-6519-0 (ISBN)
Description
This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera. This radical way of creating opera formed a counterweight, even a relief, to the trenchant masculinity of literate culture in the seventeenth century. It undermined the narrowing of nationalism in the eighteenth century, and was an act of gross sacrilege against the cult of Romantic genius in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, it found itself on the wrong side of copyright law. However, in the twenty-first century it is enjoying a tentative revival. This book redefines pasticcio as a method rather than a genre of opera and aligns it with other art forms which also created their works from pre-existing parts, including sculpture. A pasticcio opera is created from pre-existing music and text, thus flying in face of insistence on originality and creation by a solo genius. -- .
Reviews / Votes
This history of pasticcio as a practice is a veritable tour de force. Morgan Barnes tells a compelling story that combines detailed archival research with interdisciplinary virtuosity and imaginative realisation. It presents an important strand of opera history that has been forgotten and misunderstood for too long, and opens up new ways of thinking about its relationship to wider culture and politics and to performance history.-Professor Sarah Hibberd, Hugh Badock Chair of Music, University of Bristol -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Illustrations
55 illustrations (some in parts)
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-6519-0 (9781526165190)
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Book
07/2024
Manchester University Press
€135.80
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Person
Peter Morgan Barnes is a research fellow in opera at the University of Bristol and currently a heritage researcher at Swansea University -- .
Content
Introduction
1 The creative process
2 Origins and development
3 Pasticcio opera: the golden age
4 Rumours of death greatly exaggerated: 1780s to 1870s
5 Survival and revival -- .
1 The creative process
2 Origins and development
3 Pasticcio opera: the golden age
4 Rumours of death greatly exaggerated: 1780s to 1870s
5 Survival and revival -- .
