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Feasting and Fasting in Opera

Download or Read eBook Feasting and Fasting in Opera PDF written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Feasting and Fasting in Opera
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780226804958
ISBN-13 : 022680495X
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Book Synopsis Feasting and Fasting in Opera by : Pierpaolo Polzonetti

Book excerpt: Convivial beginnings. The symposium and the birth of opera ; The Renaissance banquet as multimedia art ; Orpheus at the cardinal's table ; Eating at the opera house -- "Tastes funny" : tragic and comic meals from Monteverdi to Mozart ; Comedy as embodiment in Monteverdi and Mozart ; The insatiable : tyrants and libertines ; Indulging in comic opera : gastronomy as identity -- The effects of feasting and fasting ; Coffee and chocolate from Bach to Puccini ; Verdi and the laws of gastromusicology ; The Callas diet.


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