El sastre de dos mundos. Luigi Bazzani y la ópera en América. Tomo I & II
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Departament de Música, Ediciones Uniandes, 2022. First Edition. Paperback. [538]p.,[586]p., facsimiles, tables, bibl., wrps. New. Item #82098
ISBN: 9789587983104
Between 1807 and 1867, a Bolognese tailor made more trips, toured more continents and countries, and brought Italian lyric art to more corners of America than any other opera impresario in human history. Even so, when he passed away in the mid-19th century, no one recorded the event and the name of Luigi Bazzani fell into long obscurity. The investigation into the life and work of Bazzani involved going through the archives and libraries of ten countries, and its result is the first comparative history of opera in America, as well as the first history of the continent that rescues the perspective of the Italian artists who brought their trades and contributed to the construction of identity and the nation in our countries. With an interdisciplinary approach, and gathering unpublished primary sources,
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