The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / Larry Wolff.
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium
- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna
- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris
- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem
- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace
- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege
- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism
- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala
- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror
- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler
- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror
- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration
- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.