Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and
two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the
cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A
thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to
explain the success of operas such as Paisiello's Nina as well as
the extreme emotional reactions of their audiences. Like their
counterparts in drama, literature and painting, these works brought
to the fore serious contemporary problems including the widespread
execution of deserters, the treatment of the insane, and anxieties
relative to social and familial roles. They also developed a
specifically operatic version of the dominant language of
sensibility. This wide-ranging study involves such major cultural
figures as Goldoni, Diderot and Mozart, while refining our
understanding of the theatrical genre system of their time.
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