Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

by Martha Feldman

Book Overview

Performed throughout Europe during the eighteenth century, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant and popular musical art form, engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. In Opera and Sovereignty, Martha Feldman takes a groundbreaking anthropological approach to the study of the genre. Employing a widely interdisciplinary argument that opera seria must be understood in light of the period's social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226241130
• ISBN13: 9780226241135
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"