Entangled Histories

Opera and Cultural Exchange between Vienna and the Italian States after Napoleon

Claudio Vellutini (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
9780197656563 (ISBN)

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Through a wealth of archival documents and printed materials, Entangled Histories shows how, over the first half of the nineteenth century, opera helped redefine questions of collective identity in the Austrian empire, serving as a testing ground for, among others, theories of language and education, notions of fatherland and citizenship, artistic expressions of cultural hybridity, new forms of managing economic and cultural capital, and practices of collective memory. By emphasizing the entanglements between opera's aesthetics, its social function, and the ideology underpinning its system of production in different institutional and urban contexts, this book places opera at the intersection of a broad set of political and cultural relationships that for several decades connected Vienna and prominent Italian operatic centers, contributing to a transnational historiography of the art form in the nineteenth century. It also argues that new modes of production and dissemination of opera between Vienna and the Italian states contributed to official cultural policies promoting a supranational identity of the Austrian empire-one that acknowledged, but ultimately transcended cultural differences. As the state emerged victoriously yet completely transformed from over two decades of wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, opera-with its long tradition of impresarios, composers, librettists, and performers on the move-became a key tool for bringing some of the different cultural traditions of the Austrian empire into a fruitful mutual dialogue.

Claudio Vellutini is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of British Columbia. He has published extensively on 19th-century opera, performers, and opera houses in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and in a number of edited volumes.

Introduction
1: Opera and the Habsburgs
2: The Politics of Theater Administration
3: Beyond Boundaries: Rossini's Operas in Post-Napoleonic Vienna
4: Romantic Milan
5: Barbaja's Networks and Legacy
6: Donizetti, Cosmopolitanism, and Habsburg Imperial Ideology
7: Verdi's Ernani and the Construction of Dynastic Memory
Epilogue: 1848 and Beyond
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Cultural History of Music
Zusatzinfo	7 b&w figures
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 226 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-13	9780197656563 / 9780197656563
Zustand	Neuware