Sentimental Opera

Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19909271
AutoresStefano Castelvecchi (University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Data de publicação2013-10-24
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSentimental Opera (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511980244
OpenAlexW9247571
Open LibraryOL34732085M
ISBN9780511980244
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6

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

Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Cult · Drama · Literature · MOZART · Opera · Sensibility · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought · 18th century · Drama, history and criticism · History and criticism