Rossini and post-Napoleonic Europe
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Rossini and post-Napoleonic Europe
(Eastman studies in music)
University of Rochester Press, 2015
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Warren Roberts has discovered a Rossini that others have not seen, a composer who commented ironically and satirically on religion and politics in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
This book examines Rossini within the context of his own time, one of Napoleonic domination of Italy, restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in Naples in 1815, and the 1830 Revolution in Paris. Using the techniques of the historian,and reading librettos as texts, the author analyzes the five operas treated in detail in the book (Il barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, La gazza ladra, Matilde di Shabran, and Il viaggio a Reims) as responses, each in its own way, to the history that the composer experienced. Roberts shows that Rossini made probing commentaries on politics and religion in a time of reaction and revolution, and that the composer was well-informed on post-Napoleonic politics. Rossini's comic writing served very serious purposes, exposing the problems and complications of an age that he observed with striking clarity.
Warren Roberts is Professor Emeritusof History at the University at Albany, SUNY, and has published extensively on eighteenth-century French culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Setting the Stage: Opera Buffa and Comedy of Manners in an Age of Democratic Revolution
Rossini, Mozart, Paisiello, and the Barber of Seville
Jane Austen, Goya, Rossini, and the Post-Napoleonic Age: La Cenerentola
Rossini, Beethoven, and Rescue Opera: Fidelio and La gazza ladra
Rossini, Ferretti, Matilde di Shabran, and the Revolution of 1820-21
Stendhal and Rossini in Paris: Il viaggio a Reims, Le Comte Ory, and the July Revolution
Conclusion: Thinking about Rossini
Notes
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"