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A sociable moment : opera and festive culture in baroque Siena / Colleen Reardon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reardon, Colleen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--Italy--Siena (City-state)--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.
- Contents:
- The curtain rises
- A festive culture and its sociable network
- The Chigi between Rome and Siena
- A princess comes to town
- Siena, the Chigi, and the pastoral documents
- Pastoral reflections, political drama, and the end of an era
- The Rozzi and opera in the 1690s documents
- Innocence recognized and Cammilla revived documents
- Gigli's last bow and the return of the pastoral documents.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-060752-1
- 0-19-049632-0
- 0-19-049631-2
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