Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception

by Herbert Lindenberger

Book Overview

Setting opera within a variety of contexts - social, aesthetic, historical - Lindenberger illuminates a form that has persisted in recognizable shape for over four centuries. The study examines the social entanglements of opera, for example the relation of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio and Verdi's Il trovatore to its initial and later audiences. It shows how modernist opera rethought the nature of theatricality and often challenged its viewers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521199891
• ISBN13: 9780521199896
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"