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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smart, Mary Ann (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Verdi, Giuseppe, > 1813-1901 > Influence.
Verdi, Giuseppe, > 1813-1901 > Criticism and interpretation.
Opera > Political aspects > Italy > 19th century.
Opera > Political aspects > France > Paris > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.