Sociable Moment

Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-049630-2
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 649 g

After their military defeat by the Florentines in the mid-sixteenth century, the citizens of Siena turned from politics to celebratory, social occasions to express their civic identity and show their capacity for collective action. In the first major work of its kind, Colleen Reardon opens a window on the ways in which the Sienese absorbed the new genre of opera into their own festive apparatus and challenges the prevailing view that operatic productions in the city were merely an extension of Medici power to the provinces. It was, rather, members of the expatriate Chigi family who exploited the festive impulse of their countrymen, coordinating operatic performances with their triumphant visits home by activating ties of friendship and family as well as connections to Sienese institutions, most notably the Assicurate, possibly the first all-female academy in Italy. If the Chigi proved successful at inserting opera into larger patterns of sociability that conveyed the very essence of what it meant to be Sienese (senesità), their successor, the flamboyant playwright and librettist Girolamo Gigli, struggled in his attempts to transform operatic performances into professional enterprises. Fluidly written and richly embellished with anecdotes from historical chronicles, A Sociable Moment offers insight into the Sienese experience with opera during the genre's rapid expansion throughout the Italian peninsula during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reardon, Colleen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments

- Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Chapter 1: The Curtain Rises

- Chapter 2: A Festive Culture and its Sociable Network

- Chapter 3: The Chigi between Rome and Siena

- Chapter 4: A Princess Comes to Town

- Chapter 5: Siena, the Chigi, and the Pastoral

- Documents

- Chapter 6: Pastoral Reflections, Political Drama, and the End of an Era

- Chapter 7: The Rozzi and Opera in the 1690s

- Documents

- Chapter 8: Innocence Recognized and Cammilla Revived

- Documents

- Chapter 9: Gigli's Last Bow and the Return of the Pastoral

- Documents

- Appendix: Chronology of Opera in Siena, 1669-1704

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Colleen Reardon is a Professor of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She is a devoted topo d'archivio (archive rat) whose research centers on musical culture in early modern Siena. She enjoys teaching music history classes of all stripes, including specialized courses on Jane Austen and Music, Film Music, and the Musicals of Stephen Sondheim. When not teaching or doing research, she can be found devouring mystery novels.