UID:
almafu_9960117377402883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 233 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-636-4
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music ; volume 126
Content:
This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using thetechniques of the historian, and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing commentaries on politics and religion in a time of reaction and revolution, and that the composer was well-informed on post-Napoleonic politics. Rossini's comic writing served very serious purposes, exposing the problems and complications of an age that he observed with striking clarity. Warren Roberts is Professor Emeritus of History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century French culture.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).
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Setting the stage : opera buffa and comedy of manners in an age of democratic revolution -- Rossini, Mozart, Paisiello, and the Barber of Seville -- Jane Austen, Goya, Rossini, and the post-Napoleonic age : La Cenerentola -- Rossini, Beethoven, and rescue opera : Fidelio and La gazza ladra -- Rossini, Ferretti, Matilde di Shabran, and the revolution of 1820-21 -- Stendhal and Rossini in Paris : Il viaggio a reims, Le comte Ory, and the July Revolution.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-58046-530-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781782046363
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782046363/type/BOOK
