The marqués, the divas, and the castrati Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán and opera in the early modern Spanish orbit
Inventing Hispanic Opera : Opera as Epithalamium -- Negotiating Operatic Culture in Rome 1677-82 -- Naples, Opera, and Spanish Viceroys to 1683 -- Carpio and the Integration of Opera in Public Life, Naples 1683-87 -- An Operatic Legacy in the Americas
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Inventing Hispanic Opera : Opera as Epithalamium -- Negotiating Operatic Culture in Rome 1677-82 -- Naples, Opera, and Spanish Viceroys to 1683 -- Carpio and the Integration of Opera in Public Life, Naples 1683-87 -- An Operatic Legacy in the Americas "In a crucial period of opera's development as genre and business, a flamboyantly libertine Spanish aristocrat, voracious collector of books and antiquities, and famed connoisseur of visual art influenced operatic practices and productions for both Italian and Hispanic operas. This book advances our understanding of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century opera and cultural encounter, traversing opera's geography (Madrid, Rome, Naples, Lima, Mexico) by tracing the trajectory of Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán, marquis de Heliche and del Carpio (1629-1687), the first producer whose energetic patronage and legacy shaped opera in two worlds. Carpio's unusual temperament and aesthetic sensibility were essential to his celebrated success as a producer of musical plays and opera"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xxiv, 760 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Pläne, Porträts (teilweise farbig) 24,3 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780197681848 978-0-19-768184-8 0197681840 0-19-768184-0 |