Sociable Moment
Subtitle: Opera and Festive Culture in Baroque Siena
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780190496302
Subjects: Opera, italy
Description: 'A Sociable Moment' examines the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.