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Laughter between Two Revolutions : <I>Opera Buffa</I> in Italy, 1831-1848 /

This study represents the first substantial assessment of Italian comic operas composed during the central years of the Risorgimento -- the period during which upheavals, revolutions, and wars ultimately led to the liberation andunification of Italy. Music historians often view the period as one dur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Izzo, Francesco (Musicologist) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opera buffa in 1832 : Luigi Ricci's Il nuovo Figaro and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
  • The Ricci supremacy : Un'avventura di Scaramuccia (1834)
  • Old librettos revisited : Gaetano Rossi and Luigi Ricci's Le nozze di Figaro (1838) and other remakes
  • Genre in Donizetti's Don Pasquale (1843)
  • Criticism and genre : Lauro Rossi"s Il borgomastro di Schiedam (1844)
  • The daughter of the Risorgimento : Donizetti's La figlia del reggimento (1840), nationality, and censorship.