The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen, a review
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen, a review
Mitchell Cohen's The Politics of Opera provides an overview of the political thought that informed the conception of some of the most well-known works produced during the ancien régime. Like others before him, including Anthony Arlbaster and John Bokina, whose studies on opera and politics were quite influential in the 1990s, Cohen approaches these questions from the perspective of a political scientist, offering his expert insights into centuries of reflections by philosophers and political thinkers on the relationship between art, history, and political thought.
The Politics of Opera takes the reader from the origins of the genre to the age of the French Revolution, through a well-known narrative. As one would expect, this journey begins in Florence, with the intermedi and the first experimental operas produced under Medici rule (part 1), and then follows the composer Claudio Monteverdi during his years at the court of Mantua and later in Venice in the 1640s, when opera enters a much more public arena and establishes itself as a popular commercial form of entertainment
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De Lucca, Valeria
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5 June 2019
De Lucca, Valeria
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De Lucca, Valeria
(2019)
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart by Mitchell Cohen, a review.
Renaissance Quarterly, 72 (2), .
(doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.217).
Abstract
Mitchell Cohen's The Politics of Opera provides an overview of the political thought that informed the conception of some of the most well-known works produced during the ancien régime. Like others before him, including Anthony Arlbaster and John Bokina, whose studies on opera and politics were quite influential in the 1990s, Cohen approaches these questions from the perspective of a political scientist, offering his expert insights into centuries of reflections by philosophers and political thinkers on the relationship between art, history, and political thought.
The Politics of Opera takes the reader from the origins of the genre to the age of the French Revolution, through a well-known narrative. As one would expect, this journey begins in Florence, with the intermedi and the first experimental operas produced under Medici rule (part 1), and then follows the composer Claudio Monteverdi during his years at the court of Mantua and later in Venice in the 1640s, when opera enters a much more public arena and establishes itself as a popular commercial form of entertainment
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