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" Opera and sovereignty : "
Martha Feldman
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BL
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581614
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GBA769400b410833
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| Main Entry
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Feldman, Martha
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Opera and sovereignty : : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /\ Martha Feldman
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2007
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xxv, 545 p., 4 p. of plates :: ill. (some col.), music ;; 27 cm
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9780226241128 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780226241135 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0226241122 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0226241130 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-492) and index
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| Contents
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Evenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; "Cruel Phaedra!" : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Pastoral redemption, or The old order restored ; Appendix : decree on audience behavior, Parma, October 4, 1749 -- Festivity and time. Time and the calendar ; Festive realms/festive spaces ; Unbridling the Holy City ; Laughter, ridicule, critique ; Nature revisited ; Appendix : edict on abuses in the theater, Rome, January 4, 1749 --
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Abandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study. Compounds of royalty ; The sack of the beggars and the gift of the king ; Didone abbandonata : agonism and exchange ; Apocalyptic endings -- Myths of sovereignty. Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Four sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification --
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Bourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? : reworking Artaserse ; Whether purses or persons ; Toward the ideology of a bourgeoisie ; Appendix : Annibale Mariotti's speech to the Accademia del Teatro Civico del Verzaro, December 31, 1781 -- Morals and malcontents. Dedications to ladies ; Conversations and "semiuomini" ; Regarding the senses : continuity, accordance, truth ; The family of opera -- Death of the sovereign, Venice, 1797: fourth case study. The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; 16 pratile/June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator
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Opera-- Italy-- 18th century
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Mythology, Classical, in opera
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Opera-- Social aspects-- Italy-- History-- 18th century
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| Dewey Classification
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782.10945/09033
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ML1733.3.F45 2007
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