The Politics of Opera : : A History from Monteverdi to Mozart / / Mitchell Cohen.
A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuriesThe Politics of Opera takes readers on a fascinating journey into the entwined development of opera and politics, from the Renaissance through the turn of the nineteenth century. What political backdrops have shap...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Prologue: Mixtures, Boundaries, Parallels
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Metamorphoses, ancient to Modern
- Chapter 1. Who Rules?
- Chapter 2. Reigning Voices
- Chapter 3. Laws and Laurels
- Part 2: Mantua to Venice
- Chapter 4. Orpheus’s Ways
- Chapter 5. A Prince Decides on Naxos
- Chapter 6. The Political Scenario of Monteverdi’s Venice
- Chapter 7. Revealing Ulysses
- Chapter 8. Spectacles
- Part 3: Under French Suns
- Chapter 9. Agitations and Absolutes
- Chapter 10. In the Winds: The Decades of Pernucio And Telemachus
- Chapter 11. Vertical, Horizontal
- Chapter 12. Nature and Its Discontents
- Part 4: Ancients in Modernity
- Chapter 13. From Elysium to Utica
- Chapter 14. From Crete to Rome
- Part 5: “. . . And Although I Am No Count . . .”
- Chapter 15 Masters and Servants
- Chapter 16. Gaits of History
- Chapter 17. Looking for Enlightenment
- Chapter 18. Tamino’s Wonder
- Appendix: “Backstage”
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index