‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’

Historical myth (rather than scholarship) has it that the Austrians did everything in their power to make lovers of opera in the Habsburgs’ Italian provinces feel miserable, and that works by Giuseppe Verdi in particular were viewed with a persistent deal of suspicion. An image of ruthless censors,...

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description Historical myth (rather than scholarship) has it that the Austrians did everything in their power to make lovers of opera in the Habsburgs’ Italian provinces feel miserable, and that works by Giuseppe Verdi in particular were viewed with a persistent deal of suspicion. An image of ruthless censors, armed officers in the stalls and police spies in the corridors comes to mind. In the case of opera in Habsburg Venice, this idea was fostered by a tradition of politically motivated historiography that tended to justify Italians’ struggle for independence with the alleged despotism of Austrian rule in the region, closely linked to the image of the Empire as a ‘prison of nationalities’.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-174438.22026-04-17T09:12:17Z ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’ Körner, Axel Venice Verdi, Giuseppe Italy Opera La traviata thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLF Opera Historical myth (rather than scholarship) has it that the Austrians did everything in their power to make lovers of opera in the Habsburgs’ Italian provinces feel miserable, and that works by Giuseppe Verdi in particular were viewed with a persistent deal of suspicion. An image of ruthless censors, armed officers in the stalls and police spies in the corridors comes to mind. In the case of opera in Habsburg Venice, this idea was fostered by a tradition of politically motivated historiography that tended to justify Italians’ struggle for independence with the alleged despotism of Austrian rule in the region, closely linked to the image of the Empire as a ‘prison of nationalities’. Published 2026-04-17T09:12:15Z 2026-04-10T12:01:06Z 2026-04-17T09:12:15Z 2020 chapter 978-3-8260-9973-1 978-3-8260-6621-4 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174438.2 eng Verdiperspektiven application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/product/9783826099731-verdiperspektiven-3-2018/ https://verlag.koenigshausen-neumann.de/wp-content/uploads/Koerner-Che-il-pubblico-non-venga-defrautato-degli-spettacoli-ad-esso-promessi.pdf Königshausen & Neumann 10.36202/97838260997311 10.36202/97838260997311 e469c83d-aed4-444a-8b8e-83b48061d402 978-3-8260-9973-1 978-3-8260-6621-4 3/2018 18 open access
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Verdi, Giuseppe
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Opera
La traviata
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLF Opera
Körner, Axel
‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title_full ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title_fullStr ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title_full_unstemmed ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title_short ‘Che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi’
title_sort che il pubblico non venga defraudato degli spettacoli ad esso promessi
topic Venice
Verdi, Giuseppe
Italy
Opera
La traviata
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLF Opera
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Verdi, Giuseppe
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