Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Opera Series)
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Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521199891
ISBN13:9780521199896
Release Date:November 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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