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Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848

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Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848

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The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests, or even while facing the firing squad. Whereas many of those stories were exaggerated or even invented by later generations, opera—by Verdi, but also by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante—did play a key role in priming Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation. Capturing what it was like to attend the opera or to join in the music at an aristocratic salon, Waiting for Verdi shows that the moral dilemmas, emotional reactions, and journalistic polemics sparked by these performances set new horizons for what Italians could think, feel, say, and write. Among the lessons taught by this music were that rules enforced by artistic tradition could be broken, that opera or ballet could jolt the spectator into intense feeling as well as edify, and that Italy could be in the vanguard of stylistic and technical innovation, rather than clinging to the glories of centuries past. More practically, theatrical performances showed spectators that political change really was possible, making the newly engaged spectator in the opera house into an actor on the political stage.

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Mary Ann Smart is the author of several novels. Originally from the East Coast, they now live in the Midwest with family. In addition to writing, Mary Ann Smart enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading way past bedtime. Their work often explores the complexities of everyday life and human relationships.

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