LEADER 05265nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910952243403321 005 20240513212905.0 010 $a9780226044545 010 $a0226044548 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226044545 035 $a(CKB)2560000000061130 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471853 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12195123 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471853 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10433389 035 $a(PQKB)11611214 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC665705 035 $a(DE-B1597)523933 035 $a(OCoLC)781300294 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226044545 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL665705 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10453070 035 $a(OCoLC)707067839 035 $a(Perlego)1842575 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000061130 100 $a20060809d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOpera and sovereignty $etransforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /$fMartha Feldman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $axxv, 545 p. $cill. (some col.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780226241135 311 08$a0226241130 311 08$a9780226241128 311 08$a0226241122 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEvenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; Cruel Phaedra! : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Pastoral redemption, or The old order restored ; Appendix : decree on audience behavior, Parma, October 4, 1749 -- Festivity and time. Time and the calendar ; Festive realms, festive spaces ; Unbridling the Holy City ; Laughter, ridicule, critique ; Nature revisited ; Appendix : edict on abuses in the theater, Rome, January 4, 1749 -- 327 $aAbandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study. Compounds of royalty ; The sack of the beggars and the gift of the king ; Didone abbandonata : agonism and exchange ; Apocalyptic endings -- Myths of sovereignty. Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification -- 327 $aBourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? : reworking Artaserse ; Whether purses or persons ; Toward the ideology of a bourgeoisie ; Appendix : Annibale Mariotti's speech to the Accademia del Teatro Civico del Verzaro, December 31, 1781 -- Morals and malcontents. Dedications to ladies ; Conversations and femiuomini ; Regarding the senses : continuity, accordance, truth ; The family of opera -- Death of the sovereign, Venice, 1797: fourth case study. The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; Pratile, June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator. 330 $aPerformed throughout Europe during the 1700's, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period's social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that's as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera's shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates these transformations against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture to show how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in the face of a growing public sphere. In so doing, Feldman explains why the form had such great international success and how audience experiences of the period differed from ours today. Ambitiously interdisciplinary, Opera and Sovereignty will appeal not only to scholars of music and anthropology, but also to those interested in theater, dance, and the history of the Enlightenment. 606 $aOpera$zItaly$y18th century 606 $aMythology, Classical, in opera 606 $aOpera$xSocial aspects$zItaly$y18th century 615 0$aOpera 615 0$aMythology, Classical, in opera. 615 0$aOpera$xSocial aspects 676 $a782.10945/09033 700 $aFeldman$b Martha$027650 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910952243403321 996 $aOpera and sovereignty$91553351 997 $aUNINA