La Bibbia all’opera
by Piperno Franco, Piperno Franco, Piperno Franco
Why choose the Bible for an opera libretto? What do Verdi\’s Nabucco and Rossini\’s Mosè have in common?
Beginning in the mid 1780s, in Naples and other Italian theaters, a season was added to the opera calendar during Lent characterized by operas on Old Testament subjects. From this moment on, a tradition of biblical sacred dramas began and was consolidated, which would continue until Giuseppe Verdi and Temistocle Solera\’s Nabucodonosor (1842), which in fact and by right belonged to the aforementioned tradition. The book outlines aspects of the dramaturgy and production strategy of this repertoire, examines the preceding tradition and the subsequent reception of exemplary sacred dramas such as Rossini\’s Mosè in Egitto, and considers the different motivations that the cultural policies in Italy during the revolutionary years, then the Jacobin years and the Restoration, expressed in order to support or tolerate this particular line of opera.
- Publishing house Neoclassica
- Year of publication 2018
- ISBN 9788893740203
- Price 25.00 €
Piperno Franco, Piperno Franco, Piperno Franco
Franco Piperno is Professor of Musicology and History of Music in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Rome \’La Sapienza\’. He has to his credit numerous publications and editions relating to various areas of research including music in the Italian courts of the early modern age, literature and music in the sixteenth century, orchestral institutions of Italian opera houses in the nineteenth century.
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