Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes
The 1840s and the First Opera Companies

This Element discusses many challenges to the Andean reception of Italian opera and its practices during the 1840s.

José Manuel Izquierdo König (Author)

9781009223058, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 January 2023

75 pages, 4 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.4 cm, 0.124 kg

During the 19th century, Italian opera became truly transatlantic and its rapid expansion is one of the most exciting new areas of study in music and the performing arts. Beyond the Atlantic coasts, opera searched for new spaces to expand its reach. This Element discusses about the Italian opera in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia during the 1840s and focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.

Introduction
1. Music and theatre in the Andes around 1840
2. The framework for Italian opera
3. A distruptive form of business
4. Repertories of Italian opera
5. The limits of Italian opera
6. A very personal journey
Epilogue
References.

Subject Areas: Opera [AVGC9], Theatre studies [AN]