Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Martha Feldman

Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

Martha Feldman

584 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

history music challenging informative slow-paced
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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 addr...

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