Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes - The 1840s and the First Opera Companies

During the 19th century, Italian opera became truly transatlantic and its rapid expansion is one of the most exciting new areas of study in music and the performing arts. Beyond the Atlantic coasts, opera searched for new spaces to expand its reach. This Element discusses about the Italian opera in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia during the 1840s and focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Music and theatre in the Andes around 1840; 2. The framework for Italian opera; 3. A distruptive form of business; 4. Repertories of Italian opera; 5. The limits of Italian opera; 6. A very personal journey; Epilogue; References.

Summary

This Element focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.

Product details

• Authors: Jose Manuel (Pontificia Universi Izquierdo Koenig, Jose Manuel (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Izquierdo Koenig, José Manuel Izquierdo König
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781009223058
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0922305-8
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Musical Theatre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Latin America, Musicals, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals, Opera, Theatre Studies, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Music of film and stage