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Title

Italian opera in the United States, 1800-1850 : at the origins of a cultural migration / edited by Giuseppe Gerbino and Francesco Zimei ; foreword by Claudio Orazi

Publication

Lucca : Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gerbino, Giuseppe
• Zimei, Francesco
• Orazi, Claudio, 1959-
• Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America.

Description

xviii, 244 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, color portraits; 26 cm

Subject

• Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838
• Opera > United States > 19th century > History and criticism
• Opera > New York (State) > New York > 19th century
• Italians > United States > Intellectual life > 19th century

Note

• "Italian opera in the United States, 1800-1850 explores the events that led Italian opera to cross the ocean and settle in the United States. A raft of neglected documentary artifacts, including hitherto unexamined records from historial newspapers, sheds new light on this phenomenon, which saw Italian artists and intellectuals immigrate to the United States during the century's first decades"--Page 4 of cover
• "This volume draws inspiration and direction from the international symposium 'Lorenzo Da Ponte and the birth of italian opera in New York', held at Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America on 15 October 2018"--Introduction
• "Published with the assistance of Fondazione Teatro Carlo Felice, Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America"--Preliminary page

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 211-233) and index

Contents

1. Opera as an immigrant in Lorenzo Da Ponte's New York / Karen Ahlquist -- 2. At the dawn of Italian opera in America : Phil Trajetta in Charleston (1803) and New York City (1810) -- 3. Lorenzo Da Ponte and Cultural life in the United States / Barbara Faedda -- 4. "Lynch has been in paradise as to music" : the Irish American in Paris and the diva who inspired him to Introduce Italian opera to New York in 1825 / Molly Nelson-Haber -- 5. Finding a new home for Italian opera : Manuel García and the Lafayette Theatre / Giuseppe Gerbino -- 6. Italian opera tries to take root : Lorenzo Da Ponte's Last Ape musicale and its context / Francesco Zimei -- 7. In Da Ponte's steps : Piero Maroncelli and Amalia Schneider in New York / Lucia Marchi -- 8. Lorenzo Da Ponte's legacy : Italian opera, singers, and identity in New York City in the 1840s and 1850s / Davide Ceriani

ISBN

• 9788855431835
• 8855431838

OCLC

• on1390153794
• 1390153794
• SCSB-14649652

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries