Why Venice? Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3373891 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward Muir (Professor of the Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-353 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/002219506774929854 |
| OpenAlex | W2028454275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
Why did opera first succeed as a public art form in Venice between 1637 and 1650 when all the elements of the new form were fully evident? The answer is to be found in the conjunction between Venetian carnival festivity and the intellectual politics of Venetian republicanism during the two generations after the lifting of the papal interdict against Venice in 1607. During this extraordinary period of relatively free speech, which was unmatched elsewhere at the time, Venice was the one place in Italy open to criticisms of Counter Reformation papal politics. Libertine and skeptical thought flourished in the Venetian academies, the members of which wrote the librettos and financed the theaters for many of the early Venetian operas
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Opera · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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The Social History of Skepticism
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |