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The Singing Turk - Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon (Paperback)
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The Singing Turk - Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon (Paperback)
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While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much
of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging
operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their
musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the
Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian
Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast
repertory. This book explores how these representations of the
Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe,
became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about
European-Ottoman international relations. After Christian armies
defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed
as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish
issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of
the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in
Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While
Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim
Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this
difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and
setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political
perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could
recognize as their own.
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