Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution(English, Hardcover, Polzonetti Pierpaolo)

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Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution(English, Hardcover, Polzonetti Pierpaolo) is written by Polzonetti Pierpaolo and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521897084 (ISBN 10) and 9780521897082 (ISBN 13).

How did revolutionary America appear to European audiences through their opera glasses? The operas studied in this volume are populated by gun-toting and slave-holding Quakers, handsome Native Americans, female middle-class political leaders, rebellious British soldiers and generous businessmen. Most of them display an unprecedented configuration of social and gender roles, which led leading composers of the time, including Mozart, Haydn, Anfossi, Piccinni and Paisiello, to introduce far-reaching innovations in the musical and dramatic fabric of Italian opera. Polzonetti presents a fresh perspective on the European cultural reception of American social and political identity. Through detailed but accessible analysis of music examples, including previously unpublished musical sources, the book documents and explains important transformations of opera at the time of Mozart's masterpieces, and its long-term consequences up to Puccini. Shedding new light on familiar and less-familiar operatic works, the study represents groundbreaking research in music, cultural and political history.