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Abstract Italian opera is a multicentury tradition of musical-dramatic practices and works held together across space and time by flexible yet recognizable sets of conventions. From its beginnings in late Cinquecento Florence, through its expansion across Europe in the Settecento, its diffusion across the globe in the Ottocento, and ...
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Abstract Italian opera is a multicentury tradition of musical-dramatic practices and works held together across space and time by flexible yet recognizable sets of conventions. From its beginnings in late Cinquecento Florence, through its expansion across Europe in the Settecento, its diffusion across the globe in the Ottocento, and ...
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The Musical Quarterly, 1937
January I936 number of the "Rassegna Musicale," Ildebrando Pizzetti deplores the situation that has arisen in Italy concerning composers of opera. According to Pizzetti, this unfortunate situation, which at present shows no sign of improvement, may well lead within a short time to stagnation in operatic production.
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January I936 number of the "Rassegna Musicale," Ildebrando Pizzetti deplores the situation that has arisen in Italy concerning composers of opera. According to Pizzetti, this unfortunate situation, which at present shows no sign of improvement, may well lead within a short time to stagnation in operatic production.
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2018
In the light of the imminent closure of the opera buffa troupe, Da Ponte arranged a collective benefit for the performers: a lighthearted satirical piece entitled L’ape musicale, which featured the most popular music of recent seasons. His campaign to persuade Joseph II to change his mind over the decision to discontinue Italian opera bore fruit in ...
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In the light of the imminent closure of the opera buffa troupe, Da Ponte arranged a collective benefit for the performers: a lighthearted satirical piece entitled L’ape musicale, which featured the most popular music of recent seasons. His campaign to persuade Joseph II to change his mind over the decision to discontinue Italian opera bore fruit in ...
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Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, 1945
The regular performance of Italian opera, sung in Italian, has been carried on in London almost without interruption for about two centuries. We may date its beginning from 1705, when Vanbrugh's new theatre in the Haymarket was opened with Gli Amori d’Ergasto by Jacob Greber, and we may conveniently take 1891 as the date of its official end, since in ...
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The regular performance of Italian opera, sung in Italian, has been carried on in London almost without interruption for about two centuries. We may date its beginning from 1705, when Vanbrugh's new theatre in the Haymarket was opened with Gli Amori d’Ergasto by Jacob Greber, and we may conveniently take 1891 as the date of its official end, since in ...
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Some Difficulties in the Historiography of Italian Opera
Cambridge Opera Journal, 1998The historiography of Italian opera is particularly well suited to illustrate some problems in the general field of music history and musicology. On the one hand, there is little doubt that Italian opera belongs to the canon, not to say the museum, of learned western music; indeed, today's opera houses surpass concert halls in projecting the ‘museum ...
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Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera
2023A long-needed and up-to-date overview of the syntax and principles that make Verdi's operas so effective and so beloved today.Verdi's art emerged from a rich array of dramatic and musical practices operative in the Italy of his day. Drawing the reader into his creative world, this study (translated from the French original by the author himself) begins
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Italian Romanticism and Italian Opera: An Essay in Their Affinities
19th-Century Music, 1986Anne-Louise-Germaine Necker, Madame de Stael-Holstein, was not renowned for her tact. So it probably did not surprise as many Italians as it angered when, in January 1816, she published a stinging critique of Italian literary culture in the first issue of a new Milanese journal.
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Opera Italian! An Introduction to Italian through Opera
Italica, 2004Frank Nuessel +2 more
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