Feasting and Fasting in Opera: From Renaissance Banquets to the Callas Diet
- ISBN-10
- 022680495X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226804958
- Category
- Cooking
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-11-11
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Description
Convivial beginnings. The symposium and the birth of opera ; The Renaissance banquet as multimedia art ; Orpheus at the cardinal's table ; Eating at the opera house -- "Tastes funny" : tragic and comic meals from Monteverdi to Mozart ; Comedy as embodiment in Monteverdi and Mozart ; The insatiable : tyrants and libertines ; Indulging in comic opera : gastronomy as identity -- The effects of feasting and fasting ; Coffee and chocolate from Bach to Puccini ; Verdi and the laws of gastromusicology ; The Callas diet.
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