A New View of the Eighteenth-Century ‘Abduction’ Opera: Edification and Escape at the Parisian ‘ThéâTres de la foire’
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Auteurs : Jama Stilwell [États-Unis]Source :
- Music and Letters [ 0027-4224 ] ; 2010-02.
Abstract
The ‘abduction’ plot was a staple of opera in the eighteenth century, making appearances in virtually every major repertory. Many scholars have suggested that the ubiquity of this plot may be traced to its sympathy with the large-scale intellectual and cultural preoccupations of the Enlightenment. I argue that such a view does not adequately account for the diversity of ways that this plot type must have been understood in the course of its extensive travels through time, place, and genre. As a case study of this claim, I examine Arlequin sultane favorite (1715), an early opéra-comique performed at the bawdy Parisian théâtres de la foire. The story emerges in this environment not as an Enlightenment text, but rather as an expression of a particular audience’s taste for burlesque comedy, popular music, and ‘exotic’ lands, and as a reflection of its domestic anxieties about power, gender, class, and sex.
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