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- Title Pagodas in Play: China on the Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Stage
- Author Adrienne Ward
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bucknell University Press
- Date 2010-04
- ISBN 9781611482966 / 1611482968
- Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
- Dimensions 11 x 8.4 x 1 in (27.94 x 21.34 x 2.54 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.109
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Hardback. New. Pagodas in Play examines the representation of China in nine Italian operas of the eighteenth century. It focuses specifically on libretti, analyzing them as texts produced in a variety of interpenetrating cultural contexts: the general European fascination with the Middle Kingdom; developments in Italian literary, theatrical, and operatic realms; Enlightenment ideologies; and the heterogeneity of the Italian states. With exemplary scholarship Adrienne Ward explores how Italians appropriated prevailing notions about the Celestial Empire and used them productively in a form of entertainment widely comprehensible in eighteenth-century Europe. The Chinese characters, places, objects, and ideas staged in Italian heroic operas (opera serie) and comic operas (opera buffe) provide a rich picture of how such authors as Pietro Metastasio, Apostolo Zeno, Carlo Goldoni, Giambattista Lorenzi, and Domenico Lalli conceived of the Celestial Empire. Furthermore, the texts and performance practices…
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