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L’intermezzo, Napoli e l’Europa
2018
The essay is an attempt to summarize the most up-to-date knowledge related to the history of the comic intermezzo. Some crucial examples of the Neapolitan scenic tradition are analyzed in order to highlight the progressive emancipation of comic scenes. An examination of the main dramatic and musical characteristics of the genre follows. The last part of the article concerns the European circulation of the Italian creations, with special attention to the famous "querelle des bouffons", which broke out in the mid-eighteenth century Paris following the performance of Giovambattista Pergolesi's "La serva padrona".
Melodrammatici e risorgimentali: "I briganti" visti da Parigi
2022
L'articolo si concentra sull'opera di Saverio Mercadante e Jacopo Crescini "I briganti" (Parigi, Théâtre-Italien, 1836), e indaga, in una prospettiva storiografica culturale e ricostruttiva, i suoi significati melodrammatici e risorgimentali. The article focuses on the opera of Saverio Mercadante and Jacopo Crescini "I briganti" (Paris, Théâtre-Italien, 1836), and investigates, in a cultural and reconstructive historiographical perspective, its melodramatic and risorgimental meanings.
National identity, national music and popular music in the Italian Music Press during the long 19th century
2011
Discusses the notions of national identity, national music and popular music as they emerged in Italian music periodicals during the years 1840–1890, in relation to the process of Italy’s political unification and the dissemination of foreign operas such as French grands opéras in the years 1840–1870 and Wagner’s Musikdramen from 1871 on. Essays and articles by relevant critics and musicians, such as Abramo Basevi and Francesco D’Arcais are discussed. Articles by lesser known journalists such as Pietro Cominazzi and Mattia Cipollone are also taken into account. The use of words like “national” and “popular” is analysed when referring to Italian opera, to its history and to the operas by for…