Costumes and Cosmopolitanism: Italian Opera in the North
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Costumes and Cosmopolitanism : Italian Opera in the North . / Jeanneret, Christine.
In: Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 32, 03.2021, p. 27-51.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Costumes and Cosmopolitanism
T2 - Italian Opera in the North
AU - Jeanneret, Christine
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - This article explores operatic costumes from a perspective of cultural exchange, with a focus on Giuseppe Sarti, first director of the permanent opera theatre in Copenhagen. Sarti’s Danish audience had almost no prior exposure to opera and little understanding of Italian. After a disastrous first season, he took measures to realise more successful productions of Italian opera in a context of migration, notably by focusing on the costumes to bypass language differ-ences. I argue here that the theatrical costumes commissioned by Sarti were crucial tools for transmitting and adapting the operatic genre to its new context, functioning as visual signifiers and as body technology. They represented the audience’s first encounter with the character and conveyed crucial information about dramaturgy.
AB - This article explores operatic costumes from a perspective of cultural exchange, with a focus on Giuseppe Sarti, first director of the permanent opera theatre in Copenhagen. Sarti’s Danish audience had almost no prior exposure to opera and little understanding of Italian. After a disastrous first season, he took measures to realise more successful productions of Italian opera in a context of migration, notably by focusing on the costumes to bypass language differ-ences. I argue here that the theatrical costumes commissioned by Sarti were crucial tools for transmitting and adapting the operatic genre to its new context, functioning as visual signifiers and as body technology. They represented the audience’s first encounter with the character and conveyed crucial information about dramaturgy.
U2 - 10.1017/S0954586720000105
DO - 10.1017/S0954586720000105
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 27
EP - 51
JO - Cambridge Opera Journal
JF - Cambridge Opera Journal
SN - 0954-5867
ER -
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