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Opera and Sovereignty
Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period’s social and political upheavals. Taking an anthropological approach to European music that’s as bold as it is unusual, Martha Feldman traces Italian opera’s shift from a mythical assertion of sovereignty, with its festive forms and rituals, to a dramatic vehicle that increasingly questioned absolute ideals. She situates ...
The Secrets of the Seducer
For years, men have been perfecting the art of seducing women. Francesco Cibelli, one of the most experienced Italian masters in the art of seduction, is ready to share all of his tips and tricks to score a woman. Stop puzzling over how many girls you are missing out on because you don't know the right techniques. With this eBook you can unlock the mysteries of what women really want in a man and learn how to effectively pick up the best girls, but with a delicious, magnetic, and effective seduction method. Unlike most guides, this is a comprehensive code of gallant strategies that are aimed at the more reserved females. The women you want to take home to meet your mother. In this easy to fo...
Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance
As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, fashion, painting, sculpture, architecture, stage-and personnel-management and urban planning as evinced in spectacles staged on water. Bodies of water in all their variety are explored here: seas, rivers, fountains, lakes and canals and flooded improvised locations within or adjacent to great buildings all provided stages for elaborate and costly performances, utilising the particular qualities of water to reflect light and distort sound. The volume e...
La Bibbia all'opera
Perché scegliere la Bibbia per il libretto di un’opera? Che cosa hanno in comune il Nabucco di Verdi e il Mosè di Rossini? Franco Piperno ci aiuta a rispondere queste domande con il suo primo libro pubblicato per NeoClassica. A partire dalla metà degli anni ’80 del 1700 a Napoli e in altre piazze teatrali italiane venne aggiunta al calendario operistico una stagione in tempo di quaresima caratterizzata da opere su soggetto veterotestamentario. Da questo momento prende avvio e si consolida una tradizione di sacrodrammi biblici che giungerà fino al Nabucodonosor di Giuseppe Verdi e Temistocle Solera(1842), di fatto e di diritto appartenente alla predetta tradizione. Il libro delinea aspetti di drammaturgia e di strategia produttiva di questo repertorio, esamina la tradizione precedente e la successiva ricezione di sacrodrammi esemplari come il Mosè in Egitto di Rossini, considera le diverse motivazioni che le politiche culturali in Italia degli anni rivoluzionari, poi giacobini indi della Restaurazione hanno espresso per ora sostenere, ora tollerare questo particolare filone operistico.
