Sentimental Opera
Questions of Genre in the Age of Bourgeois Drama
- Author: Castelvecchi, Stefano
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... — More…
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Contents
- Preface
- A prologue on genre
- 1. Pamela goes to the opera
- 2. The emergence of bourgeois drama
- 3. The codification of bourgeois drama
- 4. Opera as drame
- 5. Sensibility and the moral cure
- 6. A sentimental opera
- 7. Sentimental, anti-sentimental
- 8. Avenues
- Appendix: Bartolomeo Benincasa's preface to Il disertore (1784).