UID:
almafu_9960119222502883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-58046-839-X
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music Laughter between two revolutions
Content:
This study represents the first substantial assessment of Italian comic operas composed during the central years of the Risorgimento -- the period during which upheavals, revolutions, and wars ultimately led to the liberation andunification of Italy. Music historians often view the period as one during which serious Romantic opera flourished in Italy while opera buffa inexorably declined. Laughter between Two Revolutions revises this widespread notion by viewing well-known masterpieces -- such as Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (1832) and Don Pasquale (1843) -- as part of a still-thriving tradition. Also examined are opere buffe by Luigi Ricci,Lauro Rossi, Verdi (Un giorno di regno), and others, many of which circulated widely at the time. Francesco Izzo's pathbreaking study argues that in the "realm of seriousness" of mid-nineteenth-century Italy, comedy was not an anachronistic intruder, but a significant and vital cultural presence. Laughter between Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831-1848 offers new insights into opera history and theories of humor in the arts.It will be of interest to opera lovers everywhere and to students in such fields as music, philosophy, comparative literature, and Italian cultural studies. Francesco Izzo is Senior Lecturer in Music at the Universityof Southampton, and has also taught at New York University, East Carolina University, and the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Un giorno di regno for the Works of Giuseppe Verdi (forthcoming).
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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Opera buffa in 1832 : Luigi Ricci's Il nuovo Figaro and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore -- The Ricci supremacy : Un'avventura di Scaramuccia (1834) -- Old librettos revisited : Gaetano Rossi and Luigi Ricci's Le nozze di Figaro (1838) and other remakes -- Genre in Donizetti's Don Pasquale (1843) -- Criticism and genre : Lauro Rossi"s Il borgomastro di Schiedam (1844) -- The daughter of the Risorgimento : Donizetti's La figlia del reggimento (1840), nationality, and censorship.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58046-293-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-16880-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Musicology
DOI:
10.1515/9781580468398
URL:
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http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781580468398/type/BOOK
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