Networking Operatic Italy (Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance)

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Vella, Francesca

ISBN 10: 0226815706 ISBN 13: 9780226815701

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2022

Language: English

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Networking Operatic Italy (Opera Lab: Explorations in History, Technology, and Performance)

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University of Chicago Press

Publication Date

2022

Language

English

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0226815706

ISBN 13

9780226815701

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Hardcover

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Fine

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Fine

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A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification.

Opera’s role in shaping Italian identity has long fascinated both critics and scholars. Whereas the romance of the Risorgimento once spurred analyses of how individual works and styles grew out of and fostered specifically “Italian” sensibilities and modes of address, more recently scholars have discovered the ways in which opera has animated Italians’ social and cultural life in myriad different local contexts.

In Networking Operatic Italy, Francesca Vella reexamines this much-debated topic by exploring how, where, and why opera traveled on the mid-nineteenth-century peninsula, and what this mobility meant for opera, Italian cities, and Italy alike. Focusing on the 1850s to the 1870s, Vella attends to opera’s encounters with new technologies of transportation and communication, as well as its continued dissemination through newspapers, wind bands, and singing human bodies. Ultimately, this book sheds light on the vibrancy and complexity of nineteenth-century Italian operatic cultures, challenging many of our assumptions about an often exoticized country.

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Francesca Vella is assistant professor in music at Northumbria University. She is the author of Networking Operatic Italy.

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