TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
9th Biennial Conference on Baroque Music
ABSTRACT
Urban nobility and Italian opera in early 18th-century Madrid
Juan José Carreras and José Máximo Leza
Recent opera studies about Italian opera in 18th century Spain have focused
mainly on the court and city theatres of Madrid. In spite of its fragmentary
documentation it is possible to show how opera and serenata performances
in the houses of the nobility were fundamental to understand the reception
of Italian opera. The present paper gives a first approach to this issue
during the reigns of Felipe V (1700-1746) and Fernando VI (1746-1759).
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