Domestic Opera in Tonadillas: Operatic Practice In The Home, As Seen In Short Lyric Comedy in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Aurèlia Pessarrodona*

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Our understanding of opera performance in eighteenth-century Spain is constantly expanding.¹ However, one aspect which has so far received little attention is the impact of opera on society. We here set out to approach it using information provided by another contemporary genre of musical theatre, similar but distinct: the tonadilla. This was a type of sung intermezzo, extremely popular across Spain (America included) during the second half of the eighteenth century. It consisted of a series of sung numbers, usually with very entertaining plots drawn from everyday life. Thanks to recent research, this highly original genre has become known beyond...
Idioma originalAnglès
Títol de la publicacióTheater Spaces of Music in Eighteenth-Century Europe
EditorsIskrena Yordanova, Giuseppina Raggi, Maria Ida Biggi
Lloc de publicacióWien, Austria
EditorHollitzer
Pàgines147-184
Nombre de pàgines38
ISBN (electrònic)978-3-99012-772-8
DOIs
Estat de la publicacióPublicada - 2020

Sèrie de publicacions

NomCadernos de Queluz / Specula Spectacula
EditorHollitzer Verlag
Volum3/10

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