The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon /
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 created a series of works,...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2016]
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