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- Title
Mechanism and Tradition in Puccini's Turandot.
- Authors
SCHWARTZ, ARMAN
- Abstract
The article examines the opera "Turandot," by Giacomo Puccini, with particular focus on the relationship between older forms of operatic enchantment and fascist aesthetics. It discusses the opera's preoccupations with ancient China and commedia dell'arte, with music boxes, mechanical repetition, and the Italian operatic tradition and the figure of Turandot herself. It reexamines the question of the relationship of "Turandot" with the death of the opera, focusing on its treatment of technology, mechanism and the Italian canon. It also explores how the opera stages its own historical position and aims to make a specific intervention.
- Subjects
CHINA; ITALY; TURANDOT (Opera); PUCCINI, Giacomo, 1858-1924; OPERA; ITALIAN drama (Comedy); COMMEDIA dell'arte; FASCIST aesthetics
- Publication
Opera Quarterly, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 1/2, p28
- ISSN
0736-0053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oq/kbp032