عنوان

Foreign opera at the London playhouses :

(Number (ISBN

1107022215

(Number (ISBN

9781107022218

Number

dltt

Title Proper

Foreign opera at the London playhouses :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

from Mozart to Bellini /

First Statement of Responsibility

Christina Fuhrmann, Ashland University

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 262 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, music ;

Dimensions

26 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in opera

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

A tale of two Boieldieus -- The pippin and the pineapple : Rossini and Mozart -- The flood-gates of foreign music : Der Freischütz -- The search for Weber's successor -- Mozart and Rossini revisited -- Grand opera : competition and copyright -- Of foreigners and fidelity

0

Text of Note

In the early nineteenth century over forty operas by foreign composers, including Mozart, Rossini, Weber and Bellini, were adapted for London playhouses, often appearing in drastically altered form. Such changes have been denigrated as 'mutilations'. The operas were translated into English, fitted with spoken dialogue, divested of much of their music, augmented with interpolations and frequently set to altered libretti. By the end of the period, the radical changes of earlier adaptations gave way to more faithful versions. In the first comprehensive study of these adaptations, Christina Fuhrmann shows how integral they are to our understanding of early nineteenth-century opera and the transformation of London's theatrical and musical life. This book reveals how these operas accelerated repertoire shifts in the London theatrical world, fostered significant changes in musical taste, revealed the ambiguities and inadequacies of copyright law and sparked intense debate about fidelity to the original work. -- Amazon.com

Musical theater-- England-- London-- History-- 19th century

Opera-- England-- London-- History-- 19th century

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Fuhrmann, Christina

Date of Transaction

20190101045109.4

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y