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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover, New edition)
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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
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At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to
the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify
to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance,
activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book
considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one
that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or
that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body
to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's
Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or
one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the
mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia
satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's
score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art,
addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European
cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.
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