ABSTRACT
The study of opera in the second half of the eighteenth century has flourished during the last several decades, and our knowledge of the operas written during that period and of their aesthetic, social, and political context has vastly increased. This volume explores opera and operatic life of the years 1750-1800 through a selection of articles intended to represent the last few decades of scholarship in all its excitement and variety.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|82 pages
Aesthetics and Dramaturgy
part II|83 pages
Singers
part III|95 pages
Sensibility, Sentiment and the Pastoral
part IV|47 pages
Orientalism and Exoticism
part V|36 pages
Opera and Politics
part VI|97 pages
Mozart and His Viennese Contemporaries
part VII|97 pages
Opera Seria