Sentimental Opera : Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama

Name: Sentimental Opera
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521632140
Price: 17800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521632140

by Stefano Castelvecchi

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Opera

ISBN-10 0521632145

ISBN-13 9780521632140

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 24th, 2013

Print length 294 Pages

Weight 766 grams

Dimensions 25.30 x 17.30 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 Opera Opera

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Castelvecchi's book is an in-depth study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama - and offers a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system in the age of Mozart.

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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