Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial music histories (16th-20th centuries). IMS Intercongressional Symposium

Session

Opera: transnational Rossini

FP18

10 Jul 2025, 12:30

Aula 8

Conveners

Opera: transnational Rossini

• Salvatore Morra (University of Cambridge)

184. Remapping Rossini’s Operas in the Ionian Islands

10/07/2025, 12:50

Free paper

During the 1820s and 1830s it would have been difficult to find a more ideal setting in which to restage Gioachino Rossini’s philhellenic opera Le Siège de Corinthe (1826) than the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù. The Greek Revolution was underway on the mainland, and the small Mediterranean island of Corfù was under British rule following an intense seventeen-year period (1797-1814)...

107. The Role of Algeria in the Creation of Rossini’s “L’italiana in Algeri”: Historical and Political Perspectives

10/07/2025, 13:10

Free paper

The aim of my paper is to contribute to the musicological debate surrounding the Mediterranean by focusing on the role of Algeria in the creation of Gioachino Rossini’s opera “L’italiana in Algeri” (1813). Specifically, I would like to draw the attention of the musicological community to the results of recent research that could lead us to reconsider existing theories regarding two aspects of...