Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange between Vienna and the Italian States after Napoleon (New Cultural History of Music)

Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing ground for, among others, theories of language and education, notions of fatherland and citizenship, artistic expressions of cultural hybridity, new forms of managing economic and cultural capital, and practices of collective memory.

Claudio Vellutini is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on 19th-century opera, performers, and opera houses in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and in a number of edited volumes.