Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Cambridge
Article title
Rossini in Sudamerica
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
-
Title of journal
Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi
Article number
-
Volume number
51
Issue number
-
First page of article
111
ISSN of journal
0411-5384
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
This article investigates the rapid spread of operatic performances beyond Europe during the first decades of the nineteenth century through a case study focused on the works of the most famous composer of the period, Gioachino Rossini. By tracing performances of Rossini’s operas during the 1820s and ’30s, first in Rio de Janeiro, home of the Portuguese court between 1808 and 1821, and then in the capitals of the newly independent republics of Argentina and Uruguay, I explore the local significance of these performances, along with their wider implications for the history of nineteenth-century opera.
