Verdian opera burlesqued: a glimpse into mid-Victorian theatrical culture
2003; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0954586703000338
ISSN1474-0621
Autores Tópico(s)Social and Cultural Dynamics
ResumoThrough brief case studies of burlesques of Ernani, Il trovatore and La traviata written for nineteenth-century London, this essay makes a preliminary examination of the nature of Victorian operatic burlesques, why they existed, and how they functioned artistically and sociologically. My larger purpose is threefold: to investigate the manner in which burlesque interpreted the foreign art form of Italian opera in a culture self-consciously identified as English, to consider how these works traversed class differences in an evolving socio-cultural milieu, and to ask how we might understand the these works in relation to the cultural codes of Victorian London.
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