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Sentimental Opera

Sentimental Opera Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama - Cambridge Studies in Opera

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Publisher's Synopsis

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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Book information

ISBN: 9780521632140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 782.109033
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 294
Weight: 766g
Height: 253mm
Width: 173mm
Spine width: 19mm