Sentimental Opera - Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama

Informationen zum Autor Stefano Castelvecchi is Lecturer in Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published critical editions of works by Rossini and Verdi and various articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Italian opera. His edition of Abramo Basevi's The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi (1859) is forthcoming. Klappentext Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart. Zusammenfassung Castelvecchi's book is an in-depth study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama - and offers a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system in the age of Mozart. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; A prologue on genre; 1. Pamela goes to the opera; 2. The emergence of bourgeois drama; 3. The codification of bourgeois drama; 4. Opera as drame; 5. Sensibility and the moral cure; 6. A sentimental opera; 7. Sentimental, anti-sentimental; 8. Avenues; Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784).

Product details

• Authors: Stefano Castelvecchi, Stefano (University of Cambridge) Castelvecchi, Castelvecchi Stefano
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108461832
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46183-2
• No. of pages: 297
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera; Cambridge Studies in Opera
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, European History, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, C 1700 To C 1800, Western "classical" music