Operatic Pasticcios in 18th-Century Europe Contexts, Materials and Aesthetics

• Main Author: Berthold Over, Gesa zur Nieden
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld Transcript Verlag 2021; transcript Verlag
• Edition: 1
• Series: Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften
• Subjects: Art History; Arts; Cultural History; Culture and institutions; European Art; Fine Arts; History; History of art; History, geographic treatment, biography; History, geography, and auxiliary disciplines; Law; Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric; Music; Music Aesthetics; Oper; Opera; Operas; Pastiche; Philosophy and psychology; Stage presentations; The Arts; The arts. Fine and decorative arts; The Arts: treatments and subjects; Work Concept
• ISBN: 9783839448854; 3839448859; 9783837648850; 3837648850
• ISSN: 2703-0245
• DOI: 10.14361/9783839448854

In Early Modern times, techniques of assembling, compiling and arranging pre-existing material were part of the established working methods in many arts. In the world of 18th-century opera, such practices ensured that operas could become a commercial success because the substitution or compilation of arias fitting the singer's abilities proved the best recipe for fulfilling the expectations of audiences. Known as »pasticcios« since the 18th-century, these operas have long been considered inferior patchwork. The volume collects essays that reconsider the pasticcio, contextualize it, define its preconditions, look at its material aspects and uncover its aesthetical principles.