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5 lis 2014 · The central issue of the chapter is the need for historians to find ways to address opera’s “complete history,” including the interrelationships of composition, performance, and revisions when writing a historical narrative for opera.
Abstract. Adaptability is the key word when referring to the social history of opera, its institutions, its protagonists, its sponsors, its audiences and publics. This paper intends to...
7 lut 2002 · The chronologically organized primary sources include 115 passages--private letters, portions of libretti, literary criticism, satire, and poetry--from opera’s late Renaissance infancy through modern times.
From the very first opera performance in Italy in 1607, to the origins of some of the world’s most recognisable music, and modern day experimental productions, we’ll share a timeline of how opera has changed over the last 400 years.
I begin by considering the increasing social visibility of opera in contemporary UK and US society. I then examine the history of opera in terms of its invention in the late 16th century and its development as popular commercial entertainment in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
At what point do opera, politics, and society converge? On the one hand, opera served as a propaganda arm for rulers from its earliest days in the Italian intermezzi; on the other hand, advocacy of revolution became one of its defining characteristics in the nineteenth century. Yet opera's political and social associations go
French grand opera relied heavily on historical sources for its stories, settings, and characters. This article reexamines why representations of the past captivated Parisian audiences. For these spectators, history was not just a purely factual
