Pagodas in Play - China on the Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Stage

Informationen zum Autor By Adrienne Ward Klappentext Pagodas in Play examines the representation of China in nine Italian operas of the eighteenth century. It focuses specifically on libretti, analyzing them as texts produced in a variety of interpenetrating cultural contexts: the general European fascination with the Middle Kingdom; developments in Italian literary, theatrical, and operatic realms; Enlightenment ideologies; and the heterogeneity of the Italian states.

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne Ward
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781611482966
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-296-6
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works