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A sociable moment : opera and festive culture in baroque Siena /

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A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reardon, Colleen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Opera > Italy > Siena (City-state) > 17th century.
Opéra > Italie > Sienne > 17e siècle.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
Opera
Italy > Siena (City-state)
1600-1699
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The curtain rises
  • A festive culture and its sociable network
  • The Chigi between Rome and Siena
  • A princess comes to town
  • Siena, the Chigi, and the pastoral documents
  • Pastoral reflections, political drama, and the end of an era
  • The Rozzi and opera in the 1690s documents
  • Innocence recognized and Cammilla revived documents
  • Gigli's last bow and the return of the pastoral documents.