Voices, memory and oblivion

About opera singers in 19th century Rio de Janeiro

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/1.1.2023.48629

Keywords:

Opera divas in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century, Opera in Brazil, Brazilian press in the 19th century

Abstract

This essay addresses data on the representation of opera singers who performed in Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century based on information provided by the Rio press. The dissemination of information from the aforementioned period contributed to establishing the names of foreign artists who performed in Brazil in order to also favor local commerce, with the sale of cartes de visites and sheet music. Historically, after the arrival of these artists, there was a bifurcated sequence: either disappointment, followed by complaints and debates in the newspapers; or the success, sometimes gigantic, leading to exacerbated attitudes that never failed to attract the attention of the press.

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Author Biography

Paulo Mugayar Kuhl, State University of Campinas (Brazil) (UNICAMP)

Full Professor at the UNICAMP Institute of Arts, where he has taught since 1993. He has a degree in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (1987), a master's degree in History of Art and Culture from the State University of Campinas (1992), a doctorate in Social History from the University of São Paulo (1998), a post-doctorate from New York University (2008) and a lectureship from UNICAMP (2012). His research focuses on the history of opera in Brazil and Portugal, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, and on cultural relations between Brazil, Italy and France. She is also interested in poetics and artistic precepts, musical iconography, the voice, singers and Brazilian concert songs. From July 2021 to July 2023, he was Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Music at UNICAMP. He is a member of ABEMUS, ARLAC (International Society of Musicology) and the editorial boards of the Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi (Italy), the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (UK) and the Cambridge Opera Journal (UK). Together with Axel Körner, he edited the volume Italian Opera in Global and Transnational Perspective - Reimagining Italianità in the Long Nineteenth Century, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

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Published

2023-12-01

How to Cite

Kuhl, P. M. (2023). Voices, memory and oblivion: About opera singers in 19th century Rio de Janeiro. Journal of Brazilian Erudite Vocal Music, 1(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.35699/1.1.2023.48629

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Abertura

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Essays