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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Sentimental and Anti-Sentimental in "Le nozze di Figaro"
Contributor:
Castelvecchi, Stefano
imprint:
University of Chicago Press, 2000
Published in:Journal of the American Musicological Society
Language:
English
ISSN:
0003-0139;
1547-3848
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>The article explores the complex relationship between Le nozze di Figaro (1786) and aspects of eighteenth-century sentimental culture. On the one hand, the opera parodies recognizable elements of that culture, thus joining a well-established anti-sentimental trend (an attitude largely inherited from its literary source, Beaumarchais's comedy Le Mariage de Figaro). In other respects, however, Le nozze di Figaro can be seen to make a direct appeal to sentiment. The tension between the sentimental and the anti-sentimental is one of the driving forces behind this work, and one of the most fascinating aspects of an entire epoch in European culture.</p>