Stagecrafting the City -- Florence, Opera, and Technological Modernity -- Funeral Entrainments -- Errico Petrella's Jone and the Band -- Global Voices -- Adelin

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More than any other nation, Italy -- from its imperial past to its subordinate present, from its colonial forays to its splendid isolation -- embodies the myria

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of cu

Introduction : audiovisual histories -- From mimesis to prosthesis -- Opera as peepshow -- Shadow media -- Haydn's Creation as moving image -- Beethoven's phant