000400331 000__ 03528cam\a2200421\a\4500 000400331 001__ 400331 000400331 005__ 20210513141428.0 000400331 006__ m\\\\\\\\u\\\\\\\\ 000400331 007__ cr\cn||||||||| 000400331 008__ 060809s2007\\\\ilua\\\\sb\\\\001\0\eng\d 000400331 010__ $$z 2006026243 000400331 020__ $$z9780226241128 (cloth : alk. paper) 000400331 020__ $$z9780226241135 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000400331 020__ $$z0226241122 (cloth) 000400331 020__ $$z0226241130 (pbk.) 000400331 020__ $$z9780226044545 (e-book) 000400331 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10453070 000400331 035__ $$a(OCoLC)710995108 000400331 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000400331 043__ $$ae-it--- 000400331 05014 $$aML1733.3$$b.F45 2007eb 000400331 08204 $$a782.10945/09033$$222 000400331 1001_ $$aFeldman, Martha. 000400331 24510 $$aOpera and sovereignty$$h[electronic resource] :$$btransforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /$$cMartha Feldman. 000400331 260__ $$aChicago :$$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$$c2007. 000400331 300__ $$axxv, 545 p. :$$bill. (some col.) ;$$c26 cm. 000400331 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000400331 5050_ $$aEvenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. Ritornello form as rhetorical exchange ; The singer as Magus ; Rubbing into magic ; Frame -- Programming nature, Parma, 1759 : first case study. Enter nature ; Remaking viewers ; Cruel Phaedra! : Ippolito ed Aricia ; Pastoral redemption, or The old order restored ; Appendix : decree on audience behavior, Parma, October 4, 1749 -- Festivity and time. Time and the calendar ; Festive realms, festive spaces ; Unbridling the Holy City ; Laughter, ridicule, critique ; Nature revisited ; Appendix : edict on abuses in the theater, Rome, January 4, 1749 -- 000400331 5050_ $$aAbandonments in a theater state, Naples, 1764 : second case study. Compounds of royalty ; The sack of the beggars and the gift of the king ; Didone abbandonata : agonism and exchange ; Apocalyptic endings -- Myths of sovereignty. Of myth and the mythographer ; Themistocles, hero ; History as myth ; Sovereigns and two heroes ; The exemplary prince and the loyal son : Artaxerxes and Arbaces ; The conquering lover-king : Alexander the Great ; A hapless emperor : Hadrian ; Proud hero and imperial autocrat : Aetius and Valentinian III ; The king cometh ; Bataille's sovereigns : a postscript on identification -- 000400331 5050_ $$aBourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? : reworking Artaserse ; Whether purses or persons ; Toward the ideology of a bourgeoisie ; Appendix : Annibale Mariotti's speech to the Accademia del Teatro Civico del Verzaro, December 31, 1781 -- Morals and malcontents. Dedications to ladies ; Conversations and femiuomini ; Regarding the senses : continuity, accordance, truth ; The family of opera -- Death of the sovereign, Venice, 1797: fourth case study. The death of time ; Opera in a democratic ascension ; Pratile, June 4 ; La morte di Mitridate ; Summer season : Caesar, Brutus, and Joan of Arc ; Moralizing the spectator. 000400331 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000400331 650_0 $$aOpera$$zItaly$$y18th century. 000400331 650_0 $$aMythology, Classical, in opera. 000400331 650_0 $$aOpera$$xSocial aspects$$zItaly$$y18th century. 000400331 655_7 $$aElectronic books.$$2lcsh 000400331 852__ $$bebk 000400331 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10453070$$zOnline Access 000400331 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:400331$$pGLOBAL_SET 000400331 980__ $$aEBOOK 000400331 980__ $$aBIB 000400331 982__ $$aEbook 000400331 983__ $$aOnline