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Series:   Elements in Musical Theatre

Kickstarting Italian Opera in the Andes

The 1840s and the First Opera Companies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2023

José Manuel Izquierdo König
José Manuel Izquierdo König
Affiliation:
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Summary

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.
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Italian operaAndean regiontransatlanticglobal historyimpresario
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Series: Elements in Musical Theatre
Online ISBN: 9781009223027
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 26 January 2023

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