Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma

Name: Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma
Brand: University of Rochester Press
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By Butler, Margaret R.

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French and Italian varieties of opera have intermingled and informed one another from the genre's first decades onward. Yet we still have only a hazy view of why and how those intersections occurred and what they meant to a given opera's creators and audiences. Margaret Butler's Musical Theater in Eighteenth-Century Parma: Entertainment, Sovereignty, Reform tackles these issues, examining performance, spectatorship, and politics in the Bourbon-controlled, northern Italian city of Parma in the mid-eighteenth century. Reconstructing the French context for Tommaso Traetta's Italian operas that consciously set out to fuse French and Italian elements, Butler explores recreations in Parma of operas and ballets by Jean-Philippe Rameau and other French composers. She shows that Parma's brand of entertainment is one in which Traetta's operas occupy points along a continuum representing a long and rich tradition of adaptation and generic play. Such a reading calls into question the very notion of operatic reform, showing the need for a more flexible conception of a volatile moment in opera's history. The book elucidates the complicated circumstances in which entertainments were created that spoke not only to Parma's multicultural audiences but also to an increasingly cosmopolitan Europe. MARGARET R. BUTLER is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Florida.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 196
Release Date:: 2019-01-10
Publication Date:: 2019-01-10
Publisher:: University of Rochester Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1580469019
ISBN13:: 9781580469012
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 443 g
Height:: 15.7 cm
Width:: 23.5 cm
Thickness:: 1.5 cm

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