Date of Award
Spring 5-6-2021
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Music
First Advisor
Dr. Michele Cabrini
Second Advisor
Dr. Catherine Coppola
Academic Program Adviser
Dr. Poundie Burstein
Abstract
This thesis examines how French Enlightenment ideologies influence representations of non-European figures in eighteenth-century opera and opera-ballet. The venue of the fair theatre created a space for egalitarian principles to covertly criticize autocratic control as is exemplified in the utopian ideals of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Indes galantes.
Recommended Citation
Silva, Daniel, "Enlightenment Ideologies and the Non-European Other in Eighteenth-Century Opera" (2021). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/719