Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective: Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century

Contents

• Preface and acknowledgements;
• 1. Opera and italianita in transnational and global perspective: An introduction Axel Koerner and Paulo Kuhl;
• 2. Giving singers a voice. The Italian opera company and the press in Rio de Janeiro Fernando Santos BercotI;
• 3. Nina d'Aubigny's 'Italian voice': A musical projection screen in German national discourse Carolin Krahn;
• 4. Italian opera and Creole identities: Manuel Garcia in independent Mexico (1826 - 1829) Francesco Milella;
• 5. Italian opera in Vormarz Vienna: Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli and Habsburg cultural policies in the mid-1830s Claudio Vellutini;
• 6. Southern exchanges: Italian opera in New Orleans, 1836-42 Charlotte Bentley;
• 7. 'For a moment, I felt like I was back in Italy:' Early south American experiences of Italian opera singers (1840-1860) Josei Manuel Izquierdo Koenig;
• 8. Reimagining Rossini: Obituaries as transnational narratives of Italian opera Arnold Jacobshagen;
• 9. From heaven and hell to the grail hall via Sant'Andrea della Valle: Religious identity and the internationalisation of operatic styles in liberal Italy Andrew Holden;
• 10. Arcadia undone: Teresa Carreno's 1887 Italian opera company in Caracas Ditlev Rindom;
• 11. Italian impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi theatre: Sonic networks and the negotiation of opera in colonial South and Southeast Asia Rashna Darius Nicholson;
• 12. German national identity and operatic italianita: Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's operas on German myths Richard Erkens;
• 13. Fever in Belle Epoque Manaus: italianita at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 Rosie McMahon-(Opera);
• 14. Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa opera. In search of italianita in early Japanese opera history Michael Facius;
• 15. Epilogue Benjamin Walton.