Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy

Alessandra Campana explores how operas and their stage manuals participated in the making of a modern public in late nineteenth-century Italy.

List of contents

1. Staging manuals and the public; 2. The 'fleeting moment': Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele; 3. Milan 1881: Simon Boccanegra and the specters of history; 4. Acting in Otello: on the rhetoric of the medium; 5. The Real of opera: Puccini's Manon Lescaut; 6. Faust again: the silent film Rapsodia satanica and Mascagni's score; Postlude.

About the author

Alessandra Campana is Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts. She studied at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', University of York and Cornell University, New York, and was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Besides her work in opera studies, her research spans more broadly the interfaces of sound and vision in theatre, film and video. Co-chair of the Opera Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Centre at Harvard University, Massachusetts, she is an Associate Editor of The Opera Quarterly.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandra Campana, Alessandra (Tufts University Campana, Campana Alessandra
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781107666641
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66664-1
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera; Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Italy, Opera, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Romanticism, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music