Sentimental Opera: Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama

ISBN-13: 9781108461832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 297 str.

Stefano Castelvecchi

Opis

Castelvecchi presents a critical re-evaluation of the operatic genre system and the cult of sensibility in the age of Mozart.

Recenzje

'A valuable contribution not only to the study of late eighteenth-century opera but to our awareness of the priorities, absorptions and obsessions of cultured Europe on the eve of the French Revolution.' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Preface; A prologue on genre; 1. Pamela goes to the opera; 2. The emergence of bourgeois drama; 3. The codification of bourgeois drama; 4. Opera as drame; 5. Sensibility and the moral cure; 6. A sentimental opera; 7. Sentimental, anti-sentimental; 8. Avenues; Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784).