Networking operatic Italy / Francesca Vella. [electronic resource]

Author
Vella, Francesca [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Description
1 online resource (262 pages)

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Opera's role in shaping Italian identity has long fascinated both critics and scholars. Whereas the romance of the Risorgimento once spurred analyses of how individual works and styles grew out of and fostered specifically 'Italian' sensibilities and modes of address, more recently scholars have discovered the ways in which opera has animated Italians' social and cultural life in myriad different local contexts. In this book, Francesca Vella reexamines this much-debated topic by exploring how, where, and why opera traveled on the mid-19th-century peninsula, and what this mobility meant for opera, Italian cities, and Italy alike. Focusing on the 1850s to the 1870s, Vella attends to opera's encounters with new technologies of transportation and communication, as well as its continued dissemination through newspapers, wind bands, and singing human bodies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Target audience
Specialized.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2022).
Contents
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • A Note of Thanks
  • List of Figures
  • List of Musical Examples
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Stagecrafting the City: Florence, Opera, and Technological Modernity
  • Chapter Two. Funeral Entrainments: Errico Petrella's Jone and the Band
  • Chapter Three. Global Voices: Adelina Patti, Multilingualism, and Bel Canto (as) Listening
  • Chapter Four. "Ito per Ferrovia": Opera Productions on the Tracks
  • Chapter Five. Aida, Media, and Temporal Politics circa 1871-72
  • Author's Note
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
ISBN
9780226815718 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
  • 1281959081
  • 1281962553
Doi
  • 10.7208/chicago/9780226815718
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