Opera and Sovereignty

Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Martha Feldman

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University of Chicago Press
15 November 2011

Opera

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 and political upheavals, Opera and Sovereignty will continue to interest a broad range of scholars, from musicologists to historians of the Enlightenment.

Opera and Sovereignty traces Italian opera’s shift from asserting sovereignty to fomenting questions about absolute ideals. Against the backdrop of eighteenth-century Italian culture, Feldman shows how opera seria both reflected and affected the struggles of rulers to maintain sovereignty in an increasingly democratic world.

“A book of astounding breadth of subject matter, rich source materials, and provocative methodologies.”—Geoffrey Burgess, Current Musicology

“Opera and Sovereignty is a massive achievement.”—Reinhard Strohm, Early Music

By: Martha Feldman
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 25mm, Width: 18mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 1.191kg
ISBN: 9780226241135
ISBN 10: 0226241130
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 15 November 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Martha Feldman is professor of music at the University of Chicago.

Reviews for Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

"""A book of astounding breadth of subject matter, rich source materials, and provocative methodologies."" - Geoffrey Burgess, Current Musicology ""Opera and Sovereignty is a massive achievement."" - Reinhard Strohm, Early Music"""