| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages) : music. |
| Series |
Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera
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Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index. |
| Contents |
Opera, antiquity, and the Neapolitan Enlightenment in Paisiello's Socrate immaginario (1775) -- Naples, carnevale and the commedia per musica : Il convitato di pietra (1783) -- Giovanni Paisiello's Elfrida : operatic idol, martyr and symbol of nation -- Nationalism, cultural identity and the modern Neapolitan kingdom : Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi and Enea, e Lavinia -- Debora e Sisara and the rise of Lenten tragedy -- At the precipice of revolution : Piccinni's Gionata (1792) as drama and diplomacy -- The Neapolitan Ballet d'Action : Il ratto delle Sabine (1780) -- The Neapolitan Ballet d'Action and the art of experimentation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Opera -- Italy -- Naples -- 18th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: DelDonna, Anthony. Opera, theatrical culture and society in late eighteenth-century Naples. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2012 9781409422785 (DLC) 2012009616 (OCoLC)779740435 |
| ISBN |
9781409422792 (electronic bk.) |
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1409422798 (electronic bk.) |
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9781409422785 |
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140942278X |
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