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By Sebastian Werr. (Schriftenreihe fur Wissenschaft und Forschung.) Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2002. [vii, 242 p. ISBN 3-476-45291-3. DM 29.90.] Music examples, bibliography, index.
Dealing with Italian opera of the nineteenth century, one is tempted to focus on the mainstream, from Gioacchino Rossini to Giacomo Puccini and with major spotlights on Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Giuseppe Verdi. Recent research, however, has turned to a more context-oriented perspective. Consideration of social, institutional, and aesthetic issues cause questions such as the following to arise: What functions did opera have in social life of the specific culture of Italian cities? How were these functions influenced by the decisive changes in the political and economic life of nineteenth-century Italy? How do different genres of opera relate to different types of audiences? All of these issues have a considerable impact on the formal, dramatic, and musical structure of the works themselves. Over the years the Forschungsinstitut fur Musiktheater of the Universitat Bayreuth has undertaken significant context-related research; this is reflected by numerous publications about the interrelationship of genre, social and political status, and the history of drama as important catalysts for development of...
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