Warren E. Warren E. Roberts

Rossini and Post-Napoleonic Europe (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.

This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using the techniques of the historian,and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing commentaries on politics and religion in a time of reaction and revolution, and that the composer was well-informed on post-Napoleonic politics. Rossini's comic writing served very serious purposes, exposing the problems and complications of an age that he observed with striking clarity.

Warren Roberts is Professor Emeritusof History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century French culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782046363
• Artikelnr.: 56168677

Autorenporträt

Warren Roberts

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Setting the Stage: Opera Buffa and Comedy of Manners in an Age of Democratic Revolution Rossini
Mozart
Paisiello
and the Barber of Seville Jane Austen
Goya
Rossini
and the Post-Napoleonic Age: La Cenerentola Rossini
Beethoven
and Rescue Opera: Fidelio and La gazza ladra Rossini
Ferretti
Matilde di Shabran
and the Revolution of 1820-21 Stendhal and Rossini in Paris: Il viaggio a Reims
Le Comte Ory
and the July Revolution Conclusion: Thinking about Rossini Notes Bibliography Index