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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Cambridge
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Chapter title
La furia e il perdono: Sul Furioso di Donizetti
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Fondazione Donizetti
Book title
Il furioso all' Isola San Domingo
ISBN of book
978-88-89346-46-4
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
0
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Yes
Non-English
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English abstract
This article discusses a number of questions relative to Donizetti’s opera Il furioso all’isola di Santo Domingo (1833) – its genre, themes, vocal styles, musico-dramatic forms, reception, and relationship with sources in literature, drama and opera. In particular, its relationship to a German play of 1790 provides the starting point for a comparative survey of the treatment of the theme of forgiveness in drama and opera of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The principal conclusion is that Donizetti’s Furioso represents a very recent thematic trend for its time – a harbinger of future developments in opera.
