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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2013
      October 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511980244
      9780521632140
      9781108461832
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511980244
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 294 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 297 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Opera, Music Criticism
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Opera
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    Subjects:
    Music, Opera, Music Criticism
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Opera
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    Sentimental Opera is a study of the relationship between opera and two major phenomena of eighteenth-century European culture - the cult of sensibility and the emergence of bourgeois drama. A thorough examination of social and cultural contexts helps to explain the success of operas such as Paisiello's Nina as well as the extreme emotional reactions of their audiences. Like their counterparts in drama, literature and painting, these works brought to the fore serious contemporary problems including the widespread execution of deserters, the treatment of the insane, and anxieties relative to social and familial roles. They also developed a specifically operatic version of the dominant language of sensibility. This wide-ranging study involves such major cultural figures as Goldoni, Diderot and Mozart, while refining our understanding of the theatrical genre system of their time.

    Reviews

    'A valuable contribution not only to the study of late eighteenth-century opera but to our awareness of the priorities, absorptions and obsessions of cultured Europe on the eve of the French Revolution.'

    Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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