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Enlightenment Ideologies And The Non-European Other In Eighteenth-Century Opera, Daniel Silva
Enlightenment Ideologies And The Non-European Other In Eighteenth-Century Opera, Daniel Silva
Theses and Dissertations
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.