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Title Italian opera in global and transnational perspective : reimagining Italianità in the long nineteenth century / edited by Axel Körner, Paulo M. Kühl
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents Opera and italianità in Transnational and Global Perspective : An Introduction / Axel Körner and Paulo Kühl -- Giving Singers a Voice : The Italian Opera Company and the Press in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1831 / Fernando Santos Berçot -- Nina d'Aubigny's "Italian Voice" : A Musical Projection Screen in German National Discourse / Carolin Krahn -- Italian Opera and Creole Identities : Manuel García in Independent Mexico (1826 -- 1829) / Francesco Milella -- Italian Opera in Vormärz Vienna : Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli, and Habsburg Cultural Policies in the mid-1830s / Claudio Vellutini -- Southern Exchanges : Italian Opera in New Orleans, 1836-42 / Charlotte Bentley -- 'For a moment, I felt like I was back in Italy' : Early South American Experiences of Italian Opera Singers (1840 -- 1860) / José Manuel Izquierdo König -- Reimagining Rossini : Obituaries as Transnational Narratives of Italian Opera / Arnold Jacobshagen -- 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 -- Arcadia Undone : Teresa Carreño's 1887 Italian opera company in Caracas / Ditlev Rindom -- Italian Impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi Theatre : Sonic Networks and the Negotiation of Opera in Colonial South and Southeast Asia / Rashna Darius Nicholson -- German National Identity and Operatic italianità : Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's Operas on German Myths / Richard Erkens -- (Opera) Fever in Belle Époque Manaus : italianità at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 / Rosie McMahon -- Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa Opera. In Search of italianità in Early Japanese Opera History / Michael Facius -- Epilogue / Benjamin Walton
Summary Investigates how operatic presentations of Italian identity evolved as Italian opera was performed for nineteenth-century audiences around the world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022)
Subject Opera -- Italy -- 19th century
Opera -- 19th century
Opera and transnationalism.
Opera and transnationalism.
Opera.
Italy.
Form Electronic book
Author Körner, Axel, 1967- editor.
Kühl, Paulo M., editor.
LC no. 2021039840
ISBN 9781108920636
1108920632
1108922813
9781108922814