While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini creat…
7. The Ottoman Adventures of Rossini and Napoleon: Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala -- 8. Pappataci and Kaimakan: Reflections in a Mediterranean Mirror -- 9. An Ottoman Prince in the Romantic Imagination: The Libertine Adventures of Rossini's Turkish Traveler -- 10. Maomett…
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini creat…
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini creat…
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini creat…
Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.