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Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents
the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners,
theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public
and religious spheres of contemporary society. The considerable
resonance of 'Neapolitan' opera in Europe was verified early in the
eighteenth century not only through voluminous reports offered by
locals and visitors in gazettes, newspapers, correspondence or
diaries, but also, and more importantly, through the rich and
tangible artistic patrimony produced for local audiences and then
exported to the Italian peninsula and abroad. Naples was not simply
a city of entertainment, but rather a cultural epicenter and
paradigm producing highly innovative and successful genres of stage
drama reflecting every facet of contemporary society. Anthony R.
DelDonna provides a rich study of operatic culture from 1775-1800.
The book demonstrates how contemporary stage traditions, stimulated
by the Enlightenment, engaged with and responded to the changing
social, political, and artistic contexts of the late eighteenth
century in Naples. It focuses on select yet representative
compositions from different genres of opera that illuminate the
diverse contemporary cultural forces shaping these works and
underlining the continued innovation and European recognition of
operatic culture in Naples. It also defines how the cultural milieu
of Naples - aristocratic and sacred, private and public - exercises
a profound yet idiosyncratic influence on the repertory studied,
the creation of which could not have occurred elsewhere on the
Continent.
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