Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective
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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective

Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century

About this book

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 (italianità) 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.

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Yes, you can access Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective by Axel Körner,Paulo M. Kühl in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Opera Music. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. List of Tables
  8. List of Examples
  9. Notes on Contributors
  10. Preface and Acknowledgements
  11. 1 Opera and Italianità in Transnational and Global Perspective: An Introduction
  12. 2 Giving Singers a Voice: The Italian Opera Company and the Press in Rio de Janeiro, 1820–1831
  13. 3 Nina d’Aubigny’s ‘Italian Voice’: A Musical Projection Screen in German National Discourse
  14. 4 Italian Opera and Creole Identities: Manuel García in Independent Mexico (1826–1829)
  15. 5 Italian Opera in Vormärz Vienna: Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli and Habsburg Cultural Policies in the Mid-1830s
  16. 6 Southern Exchanges: Italian Opera in New Orleans, 1836–1842
  17. 7 ‘For a Moment, I Felt Like I Was Back in Italy’: Early South American Experiences of Italian Opera Singers (1840–1860)
  18. 8 Reimagining Rossini: Obituaries as Transnational Narratives of Italian Opera
  19. 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
  20. 10 Arcadia Undone: Teresa Carreño’s 1887 Italian Opera Company in Caracas
  21. 11 Italian Impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi Theatre: Sonic Networks and the Negotiation of ​Opera in Colonial South and South East Asia
  22. 12 German National Identity and Operatic Italianità: Franchetti’s and Leoncavallo’s Operas on German Myths
  23. 13 (Opera) Fever in Belle Époque Manaus: Italianità at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897–1907
  24. 14 Between ‘Sung Theatre’ and Asakusa Opera: In Search of Italianità in Early Japanese Opera History
  25. 15 Epilogue
  26. Index