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• Title:The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / Larry Wolff.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wolff, Larry, author.
  
• Published/Created:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ML1720.3 .W65 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Opera--Europe--18th century.
  Turks in opera.
  Exoticism in opera.
  Characters and characteristics in opera.
  
• Description:xii, 490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780804795777 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0804795770
  
• Contents:Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium
  The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna
  The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris
  The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem
  The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace
  Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege
  "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism
  The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala
  Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror
  An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler
  Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror
  Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration
  The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.