Le Falstaff de Manfredo Maggioni et Michael Balfe : façonner un opéra italien pour le public anglais

Based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor, Michael Balfe’s Falstaff, created in 1838 for London’s Italian opera audiences, was the work of an Italian librettist, Manfredo Maggioni, and an Irish composer, a first in a theatre where only Italian maestri were commissioned for new works. Balfe’s and...

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Main Author: Céline Frigau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2011-12-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/4351
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