Magic flutes & enchanted forests : the supernatural in eighteenth-century musical theater / / David J. Buch

• Autore: Buch David Joseph
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (483 p.)
• Disciplina: 782.109/033
• Soggetto topico: Musical theater - Europe - History - 18th century; Supernatural in musical theater; Music and magic
• Classificazione: LR 54171
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-419) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: L'Academie royale de musique -- Opera-comique -- Italian serious genres -- Italian comic genres -- German musical theater -- The supernatural in the operas of Mozart.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theatre and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite-and even because of-their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian.
• Altri titoli varianti: Magic flutes and enchanted forests
• Titolo autorizzato: Magic flutes & enchanted forests
• ISBN: 1-282-23943-0; 9786612239434; 0-226-07811-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824263603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II