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Feasting and fasting in opera : from Renaissance banquets to the Callas diet / Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polzonetti, Pierpaolo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food in opera.
- Opera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Convivial beginnings. The symposium and the birth of opera ; The Renaissance banquet as multimedia art ; Orpheus at the cardinal's table ; Eating at the opera house
- "Tastes funny" : tragic and comic meals from Monteverdi to Mozart ; Comedy as embodiment in Monteverdi and Mozart ; The insatiable : tyrants and libertines ; Indulging in comic opera : gastronomy as identity
- The effects of feasting and fasting ; Coffee and chocolate from Bach to Puccini ; Verdi and the laws of gastromusicology ; The Callas diet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Fund of The Savoy Company.
- ISBN:
- 9780226805009
- 022680500X
- Publisher Number:
- 99988957787
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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