Author Description

Opera and italianità in Transnational and Global Perspective: An Introduction / Axel Körner and Paulo Kühl -- Giving Singers a Voice: The Italian Opera Company and the Press in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1831 / Fernando Santos Berçot -- Nina d'Aubigny's "Italian Voice": A Musical Projection Screen in German National Discourse / Carolin Krahn -- Italian Opera and Creole Identities: Manuel García in Independent Mexico (1826 - 1829) / Francesco Milella -- Italian Opera in Vormärz Vienna: Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli, and Habsburg Cultural Policies in the mid-1830s / Claudio Vellutini -- Southern Exchanges: Italian Opera in New Orleans, 1836-42 / Charlotte Bentley -- 'For a moment, I felt like I was back in Italy': Early South American Experiences of Italian Opera Singers (1840 - 1860) / José Manuel Izquierdo König -- Reimagining Rossini: Obituaries as Transnational Narratives of Italian Opera / Arnold Jacobshagen -- From Heaven and Hell to the Grail Hall via Sant'Andrea della Valle: Religious Identity and the Internationalisation of Operatic Styles in Liberal Italy / Andrew Holden -- Arcadia Undone: Teresa Carreño's 1887 Italian opera company in Caracas / Ditlev Rindom -- Italian Impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi Theatre: Sonic Networks and the Negotiation of Opera in Colonial South and Southeast Asia / Rashna Darius Nicholson -- German National Identity and Operatic italianità: Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's Operas on German Myths / Richard Erkens -- (Opera) Fever in Belle Époque Manaus: italianità at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 / Rosie McMahon -- Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa Opera. In Search of italianità in Early Japanese Opera History / Michael Facius -- Epilogue / Benjamin Walton.