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Italian Opera in the Age of American Revolution - Cambridge Studies in Opera (Hardcover)
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Italian Opera in the Age of American Revolution - Cambridge Studies in Opera (Hardcover)
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How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through
their opera glasses? The operas studied in this volume are
populated by gun-toting and slave-holding Quakers, handsome Native
Americans, female middle-class political leaders, rebellious
British soldiers and generous businessmen. Most of them display an
unprecedented configuration of social and gender roles, which led
leading composers of the time, including Mozart, Haydn, Anfossi,
Piccinni and Paisiello, to introduce far-reaching innovations in
the musical and dramatic fabric of Italian opera. Polzonetti
presents a fresh perspective on the European cultural reception of
American social and political identity. Through detailed but
accessible analysis of music examples, including previously
unpublished musical sources, the book documents and explains
important transformations of opera at the time of Mozart's
masterpieces, and its long-term consequences up to Puccini.
Shedding new light on familiar and less-familiar operatic works,
the study represents groundbreaking research in music, cultural and
political history.
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