12. The Decline and Disappearance of the Singing Turk: Ottoman Reform, the Eastern Question, and the European Operatic Repertory

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Captive Sultan: Operatic Transfigurations of the Ottoman Menace after the Siege of Vienna 13
6. 2. The Generous Turk: Captive Christians and Operatic Comedy in Paris 51
7. 3. The Triumphant Sultana: Suleiman and His Operatic Harem 79
8. 4. The Turkish Subjects of Gluck and Haydn: Comic Opera in War and Peace 108
9. 5. Osmin in Vienna: Mozart’s Abduction and the Centennial of the Ottoman Siege 146
10. 6.“To honor the Emperor”: Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the Age of Enlightened Absolutism 188
11. 7. The Ottoman Adventures of Rossini and Napoleon: Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala 227
12. 8. Pappataci and Kaimakan: Reflections in a Mediterranean Mirror 250
13. 9. An Ottoman Prince in the Romantic Imagination: The Libertine Adventures of Rossini’s Turkish Traveler 283
14. 10. Maometto in Naples and Venice: The Operatic Charisma of the Conqueror 305
15. 11. Rossini’s Siege of Paris: Ottoman Subjects in the French Restoration 337
16. 12. The Decline and Disappearance of the Singing Turk: Ottoman Reform, the Eastern Question, and the European Operatic Repertory 359
17. Conclusion 389
18. Notes 407
19. Index 461