Name: Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy By Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)
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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy by Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

At the turn of the twentieth century Italian opera participated to the making of a modern spectator. The Ricordi stage manuals testify to the need to harness the effects of operatic performance, activating opera's capacity to cultivate a public. This book considers how four operas and one film deal with their public: one that in Boito's Mefistofele is entertained by special effects, or that in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is called upon as a political body to confront the specters of history. Also a public that in Verdi's Otello is subjected to the manipulation of contemporary acting, or one that in Puccini's Manon Lescaut is urged to question the mechanism of spectatorship. Lastly, the silent film Rapsodia satanica, thanks to the craft and prestige of Pietro Mascagni's score, attempts to transform the new industrial medium into art, addressing its public's search for a bourgeois pan-European cultural identity, right at the outset of the First World War.

About Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

Alessandra Campana is Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University, Massachusetts. She studied at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', University of York and Cornell University, New York, and was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, University of Oxford. Besides her work in opera studies, her research spans more broadly the interfaces of sound and vision in theatre, film and video. Co-chair of the Opera Seminar at the Mahindra Humanities Centre at Harvard University, Massachusetts, she is an Associate Editor of The Opera Quarterly.

1. Staging manuals and the public; 2. The 'fleeting moment': Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele; 3. Milan 1881: Simon Boccanegra and the specters of history; 4. Acting in Otello: on the rhetoric of the medium; 5. The Real of opera: Puccini's Manon Lescaut; 6. Faust again: the silent film Rapsodia satanica and Mascagni's score; Postlude.

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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy by Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

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Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

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Cambridge Studies in Opera

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Cambridge University Press

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2015-01-22

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220

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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy by Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

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Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy by Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

About Alessandra Campana (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

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