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19th Century Italian Opera

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19th Century Italian Opera refers to a significant period in the development of opera characterized by the emergence of prominent composers such as Verdi and Puccini. This era is marked by innovations in musical form, dramatic expression, and vocal technique, reflecting the cultural and social changes in Italy during the Romantic period.
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19th Century Italian Opera refers to a significant period in the development of opera characterized by the emergence of prominent composers such as Verdi and Puccini. This era is marked by innovations in musical form, dramatic expression, and vocal technique, reflecting the cultural and social changes in Italy during the Romantic period.

Key research themes

1. How did 19th-century Italian opera adapt and transform in transnational and postcolonial contexts?

This theme investigates the dissemination and re-creation of Italian opera beyond Italy in the 19th century, focusing on its reception, adaptation, and the cultural tensions it both expressed and generated in colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic settings. Understanding these processes sheds light on the operatic genre’s role in identity formation, cultural negotiation, and political discourse in global contexts of empire and nation-building.

Key finding: This study reveals that Manuel García’s 1828 Mexican setting of Rossini’s Semiramide was not merely an import of European opera but a complex cultural encounter reflecting Mexico’s postcolonial identity struggles and liberal... Read more
Key finding: By examining Manuel García’s operatic activity in Mexico City (1827-1829), this paper demonstrates how Italian opera became a vehicle for expressing and reshaping creole identities amid post-independence Mexico’s cultural... Read more
Key finding: This research tracks how mid-19th century Italian operatic and American minstrel troupes helped catalyse the indigenization of opera in colonial South Asia through the Parsi theatre. It reveals how opera’s adoption and... Read more
Key finding: Antonio Carlos Gomes’s 1889 opera Lo schiavo exemplifies how Italian operatic traditions, specifically bel canto and early verismo elements, intertwined with Brazilian social and political contexts, notably the abolition of... Read more

2. How did 19th-century Italian opera texts evolve as fluid, collaborative ‘spectacular texts’ in their performance traditions?

This theme centers on the mutable and collaborative nature of 19th-century Italian opera librettos and scores, emphasizing how operatic works functioned as variable, spectacular texts subject to ongoing revision, adaptation and negotiation among composers, poets, performers, impresarios, and audiences. Exploring these dynamics illuminates the complex production practices and performance conventions shaping Italian opera’s dramaturgy and its reception history.

Key finding: This paper articulates the concept of Italian dramma per musica as a variable spectacular text, arguing that opera’s multi-layered, collaborative creation and performance processes result in texts that evolve continuously. It... Read more
Key finding: Through detailed source comparison of Sartorio's operas and archival documents, the study uncovers evidence of late-stage cuts, substitutions, and adaptations in the scores and librettos resulting from rehearsal feedback and... Read more
Key finding: By cataloguing over 340 Italian self-referential operas from the 18th and 19th centuries, this work demonstrates the meta-theatrical awareness in Italian operatic dramaturgy and the fluid dialogues between compositional... Read more

3. What role did 19th-century Italian opera composers, impresarios, and performers play in shaping italianità amid European cultural politics?

This theme investigates the interactions between Italian opera creators and European cultural institutions—focusing on the mid-19th century—to reveal how notions of italianità (Italian-ness) were constructed, negotiated, and disseminated through operatic production and performance. It also explores the role of cultural policies and personal networks in fostering Italian opera’s prestige within the competitive urban operatic centers of Europe.

Key finding: Archival evidence shows Donizetti’s early, cautious negotiations with impresarios Merelli and Balocchino for commissions at Vienna’s Kärntnertortheater, highlighting the strategic cultivation of italianità within the Habsburg... Read more
Key finding: This historical overview traces the evolution of Italian music, including opera, alongside French developments in the 19th century, emphasizing cross-cultural influences and stylistic exchanges. It provides context for... Read more
Key finding: Though focusing on late 19th- and early 20th-century cultural perceptions, this study provides insight into Italian intellectuals’ ambivalent reception of modernity, including cultural imports such as opera. It contextualizes... Read more

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