The Singing Turk : Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon

Larry Wolff

ISBN 10: 0804795770 / ISBN 13: 9780804795777

Editore: Stanford University Press Aug 2016, 2016

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• Titolo: The Singing Turk : Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
• Editore: Stanford University Press Aug 2016
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0804795770
• ISBN 13: 9780804795777
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 156 A x 35 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 35 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 800 grammi

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Riassunto

While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works, including The Italian Girl in Algiers. And these are only the best known of a vast repertory. This book explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house and what they illustrate about European-Ottoman international relations.

After Christian armies defeated the Ottomans at Vienna in 1683, the Turks no longer seemed as threatening. Europeans increasingly understood that Turkish issues were also European issues, and the political absolutism of the sultan in Istanbul was relevant for thinking about politics in Europe, from the reign of Louis XIV to the age of Napoleon. While Christian European composers and publics recognized that Muslim Turks were, to some degree, different from themselves, this difference was sometimes seen as a matter of exotic costume and setting. The singing Turks of the stage expressed strong political perspectives and human emotions that European audiences could recognize as their own.

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Larry Wolff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He is the author of Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice, The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, and Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment—all published by Stanford University Press. Visit Larry Wolff's website at www.singingturk.com

Larry Wolff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He is the author of Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice, The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, and Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment—all published by Stanford University Press. Visit Larry Wolff's website at www.singingturk.com