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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon /
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium
- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna
- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris
- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem
- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace
- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege
- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism
- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala
- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror
- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler
- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror
- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration
- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.