TY - BOOK ID - 101517566 TI - Mapping artistic networks : eighteenth-century Italian theatre and opera across Europe PY - 2021 SN - 9782503584959 2503584950 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Théâtres KW - Music KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Europe KW - Théâtres KW - Opera KW - Theater KW - Italian drama KW - Opera companies KW - Singers KW - Actors KW - Opéra KW - Théâtre KW - Théâtre italien KW - Troupes d'opéra KW - Chanteurs KW - Acteurs KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Histoire et critique. KW - Histoire KW - 1700-1799 KW - Italy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101517566 AB - Mapping Artistic Networks' provides a new critical overview of the circulation of the Italian theatre and opera across Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Performed as an extension of imperial celebrations, coronations, weddings, and masquerades, Italian theatre and opera provided scripts for the representation of political power and became an expressive metonym for the Bourbon monarchs, Austrian Habsburgs, Saxon electors in Poland, and Prussian rulers. They employed theatre as a political tool that magnified their victories and fashioned their courts as theatre and made theatre part of their courts. From Munich to Vienna, from Madrid to St Petersburg, from Dresden to Stockholm, there was seldon a court that did not employ Italian-born artists, musicians, singers, and theatre engineers. 0The volume furnishes valuable information and substantive new analysis on both Italian plays and operas performed throughout various European courts and the mobility of theatre professionals. The essays critically assess how the italianità, the notion we use in the sense of the image of otherness that Europeans wished to assimilate and musical style, were defined but also challenged through the productions of Italian theatre and opera abroad and their encounters with national traditions. The collection aims to contribute to a broader discussion of cultural transfer and transmission of artistic practices in music and theatre, and migrations of artists and texts across the continent, while also exploring for the first time the East and North of Europe. ER -