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Waiting for Verdi : Italian opera and political opinion, 1815-1848 /

"The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests, or even while facing the firing squad. Whereas many of those stories were exaggerated or even invented by later generations, opera--by Verdi, but also by Rossini, Doni...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smart, Mary Ann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risorgimento fantasies
  • Accidental affinities: Gioachino Rossini and Salvatore Vigan?
  • Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, and the limits of allegory
  • Reading Mazzini's Filosofia della musica with Byron and Donizetti
  • Parlor games
  • Progress, piety, and plagiarism: Verdi's I lombardi at La Scala
  • Conclusion.