Sentimental Opera by Stefano Castelvecchi
Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to explain the success of operas such as Paisiello's Nina as well as the extreme emotional reactions of their audiences. Like their counterparts in drama, literature and painting, these works brought to the fore serious contemporary problems including the widespread execution of deserters, the treatment of the insane, and anxieties relative to social and familial roles. They also developed a specifically operatic version of the dominant language of sensibility. This wide-ranging study involves such major cultural figures as Goldoni, Diderot and Mozart, while refining our understanding of the theatrical genre system of their time.-
Opera in Postwar Venice
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Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu
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Opera in the Novel from Balzac to Proust
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The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815–1930
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Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830–1848
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Opera Acts
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Technology and the Diva
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Saint-Saens and the Stage
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Three Modes of Perception in Mozart
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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy
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Rounding Wagner's Mountain
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Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution
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When Opera Meets Film
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Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera
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Verdi, Opera, Women
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Opera in the Age of Rousseau
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Rossini in Restoration Paris
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Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London
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Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses
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Aesthetics of Opera in the Ancien Regime, 16471785
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Johann Strauss and Vienna
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Opera, Liberalism, and Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century France
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Dance and Drama in French Baroque Opera
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The Rival Sirens
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Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna
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Situating Opera
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The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata
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The Puccini Problem
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Wagner's Ring Cycle and the Greeks
'A valuable contribution not only to the study of late eighteenth-century opera but to our awareness of the priorities, absorptions and obsessions of cultured Europe on the eve of the French Revolution' The Times Literary Supplement
Stefano Castelvecchi is Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published critical editions of works by Rossini and Verdi and various articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian opera. His edition of Abramo Basevi's The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1859) is forthcoming.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521632140 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521632145 |
| Title | Sentimental Opera |
| Author | Stefano Castelvecchi |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Opera |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2013-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 294 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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