Uncle Tom on the Ballet Stage
Italy's Barbarous America, 1850-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3671215 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Korner (0000-0002-0074-6350, University College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 721-752 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2801 • E-ISSN: 1537-5358 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/662218 |
| OpenAlex | W2147103408 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
Giacomo Puccini's Fanciulla del West (1908), which featured the Californian gold fever of 1849, and Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), set in seventeenth-century Boston, are today probably the most famous Italian representations of America on stage.Although very different in character, both operas present American life as a mixture of exoticism, vice, and violence, far from the idea of a society founded on the high principles of the European Enlightenment. 1 But it is another stage work that arguably had a more lasting effect on how Italians discussed life in the United States.In 1853 Milan's Teatro alla Scala staged what was to become one of the greatest success stories in the history of Italian ballet: Bianchi e Neri, Giuseppe Rota's adaptation of Stowe's epochal novel of 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin. 2 Although
Art · Art history · Ballet · Dance · Unification · Visual arts · Classics · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |