The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolff, Larry (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium
  • The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna
  • The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris
  • The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem
  • The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace
  • Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege
  • "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism
  • The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala
  • Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror
  • An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler
  • Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror
  • Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration
  • The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.