Entangled Histories - Opera Cultural Exchange Between Vienna Italian States After Napoleon

Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing ground for, among others, theories of language and education, notions of fatherland and citizenship, artistic expressions of cultural hybridity, new forms of managing economic and cultural capital, and practices of collective memory.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1.: Opera and the Habsburgs


• 2.: The Politics of Theater Administration


• 3.: Beyond Boundaries: Rossini's Operas in Post-Napoleonic Vienna


• 4.: Romantic Milan


• 5.: Barbaja's Networks and Legacy


• 6.: Donizetti, Cosmopolitanism, and Habsburg Imperial Ideology


• 7.: Verdi's Ernani and the Construction of Dynastic Memory


• Epilogue: 1848 and Beyond


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Claudio Vellutini is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on 19th-century opera, performers, and opera houses in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and in a number of edited volumes.

Product details

• Authors: Claudio Vellutini, Claudio (Associate Professor of Musicol Vellutini, Claudio (Associate Professor of Musicology Vellutini
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197656563
• ISBN: 978-0-19-765656-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: New Cultural History of Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; austria, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Vienna, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Italy, Opera, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800, 1701–1796 (period of Austrian domination in Italy)