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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / Larry Wolff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, Larry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--Europe--18th century.
- Opera.
- Turks in opera.
- Exoticism in opera.
- Characters and characteristics in opera.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the 18th 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 work explores how these representations of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, the great nemesis of Christian Europe, became so popular in the opera house.
- Contents:
- Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium
- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna
- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris
- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem
- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace
- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege
- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism
- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala
- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror
- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler
- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror
- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration
- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804799652
- 0804799652
- OCLC:
- 1198929726
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