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Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses - From Mozart to Bellini (Paperback)
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Foreign Opera at the London Playhouses - From Mozart to Bellini (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Opera
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In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign
composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were
adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically
altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'.
The operas were translated into English, fitted with spoken
dialogue, divested of much of their music, augmented with
interpolations and frequently set to altered libretti. By the end
of the period, the radical changes of earlier adaptations gave way
to more faithful versions. In the first comprehensive study of
these adaptations, Christina Fuhrmann shows how integral they are
to our understanding of early nineteenth-century opera and the
transformation of London's theatrical and musical life. This book
reveals how these operas accelerated repertoire shifts in the
London theatrical world, fostered significant changes in musical
taste, revealed the ambiguities and inadequacies of copyright law
and sparked intense debate about fidelity to the original work.
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