Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Comedy in an Age of Tragedy 1
6. 1 Opera Buffa in 1832: Il nuovo Figaro and L’elisir d’amore 21
7. 2 The Ricci Supremacy and the Celebration of Italian Comedy: Un’avventura di Scaramuccia (1834) 57
8. 3 Old Librettos Revisited: Gaetano Rossi and Luigi Ricci’s Le nozze di Figaro (1838) and Other Remakes 89
9. 4 Genre in Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale (1843) 139
10. 5 Genre in Giovanni Peruzzini and Lauro Rossi’s Il borgomastro di Schiedam (1844) 165
11. 6 “Evviva la Francia”? Nationality, Censorship, and Donizetti’s La figlia del reggimento (1840) 199
12. Conclusion: The Ricci Legacy, Crispino e la comare (1850), and Post- 1848 Opera Buffa 231
13. Notes 241
14. Selected Bibliography 283
15. Index 297