Latin America and the transports of opera : fragments of a transatlantic discourse /

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-403) and index.Introduction. Transatlantic Transports -- 1. A Corpus of Fragments, I: Listening to Literature -- 2. A Corpus of Fragments, II: Reading Operas -- 3. Words by Calderón de la Barca: A Baroque Libretto in Lima -- 4. Carpentier's Singing Moctezuma: A Neobaroque Novella in Vivaldi's Venice -- 5. Havana and the Ghosts of Opera -- 6. Henze and Gomes: Ghostly Testimonios in Copenhagen and Rio de Janeiro -- 7. Adams and Catán: Magic and Realism in Houston and Paris -- 8. The World in Buenos Aires: Cosmopolitans at the Teatro Colón -- Afterword. Caliban at the Royal Opera House."Latin America and the Transports of Opera studies a series of episodes in the historical and textual convergence of a hallowed art form and a part of the world often regarded as peripheral. Perhaps unexpectedly, the archives of opera generate new arguments about several issues at the heart of the established discussion about Latin America: the allure of European cultural models; the ambivalence of exoticism; the claims of nationalism and cosmopolitanism; and, ultimately, the place of the region in the global circulation of the arts. Opera's transports concern literal and imagined journeys as well as the emotions that its stories and sounds trigger as they travel back and forth between Europe-the United States, too-and Latin America"--