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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon

Title
The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / Larry Wolff.
Author
Wolff, Larry
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

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Description
xii, 490 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • Opera > Europe > 18th century
  • Turks in opera
  • Exoticism in opera
  • Characters and characteristics in opera
  • Opera
  • Operas > Characters
  • Europe
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium -- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna -- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris -- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem -- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace -- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege -- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism -- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala -- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror -- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler -- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror -- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration -- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.
Call Number
JME 16-632
ISBN
  • 9780804795777
  • 0804795770
LCCN
2015047458
OCLC
932003649
Author
Wolff, Larry, author.
Title
The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / Larry Wolff.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1799
Research Call Number
JME 16-632
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