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The marriage of Figaro : a comparative study of the theatre play by Beaumarchais and the opera by Mozart and Da Ponte [PDF]
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-114).The controversy surrounding Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro (and King Lous XVI's initial banning of the play) is highlighted. Its strong social criticism of the inequality of social classes and the
Ottermann, Birgit
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OPERA AND ITALIAN IDENTITY: THE LONG VIEW
The nineteenth century is generally acknowledged as the period in which modern ideas of nation and nationalism crystallised; it is also seen as the period in which those ideas played a part in the process of Italian unification.
Stefano CASTELVECCHI
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Abstract Prior literature on market categories and identities focuses primarily on whether categorical atypicality leads to positive or negative evaluation; however, much less is known about whether the evaluation is accurate or not. While it is important for producers to know if atypicality is penalized or rewarded, audiences are also concerned about ...
Pengfei Wang, Jingjiang Liu
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ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
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Pacific Opera Victoria's production of La Traviata by Verdi. Part of A Season of Love, 1993-1994. Creative team: Artistic director Timothy Vernon. Poster illustration by Murray Kimber.
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The interest in Italian opera at the Portuguese court emerged long before the consolidated view of critical studies that have traditionally identified the beginning of the enjoyment and diffusion of Italian opera in Portugal with the reign of Joseph I ...
Giuseppina Raggi
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Mechanisms of adaptation “to our (Russian) customs” of Italian opera librettos. The paper deals with the history of poetical translation of Italian musical poetry in the 18th century Russia.
Stefano Garzonio
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in Italian: Analyzing the Influence of Michel Delines’ French Version
This article presents a brief history of Italian rhythmical translations of Modest Mussorgsky's libretto for his opera Boris Godunov, each apparently drawing on Michel Delines’ French version from 1908.
Anna Stetsenko
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THE SOCIAL SPACE OF THE ODESSA ITALIAN OPERA IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY [PDF]
The Opera Theatre as a synthetic kind of art suggests specific approaches to its investigation. The artistic and aesthetic component of the opera genre does not exhaust the whole variety of its contents, in which the social dimension closely links and ...
BAŢAC CONSTANTIN
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