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dc.contributor.authorPrest, Julia Tamsin
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-17T15:30:26Z
dc.date.available2016-08-17T15:30:26Z
dc.date.issued2017-03
dc.identifier.citationPrest , J T 2017 , ' Iphigénie en Haïti : performing Gluck's Paris operas in the French colonial Caribbean ' , Eighteenth-Century Music , vol. 14 , no. 1 , pp. 13-29 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570616000282en
dc.identifier.issn1478-5706
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 241103750
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 4f0d0fe6-83fb-44de-ad25-8ff4936017cf
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85019072855
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-3266-7390/work/54818954
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000397423900002
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9321
dc.description.abstractGluck has been hailed as the ‘first truly international opera composer’, but his internationalism is always understood in strictly European terms. This article seeks to expand our understanding of Gluck's international scope beyond Europe and specifically into the French colonial Caribbean. Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) enjoyed the most vibrant theatrical tradition of the entire Caribbean in the eighteenth century, and three of Gluck's Paris operas that had premiered in the 1770s were given there in the 1780s. Performances of these works are examined in turn, with an emphasis on performance practices in the context of local conditions, both social and practical. Gluck's operas are seen to have reached a mixed, though segregated, audience that incorporated some free people of colour, including a small number of black people, and the first documented performance of a singer of colour in a Gluck opera is uncovered. Our understanding of Gluck's reach, reception and status is thus broadened and deepened in some significant ways, and some new areas of research are opened up.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEighteenth-Century Musicen
dc.rights© 2016, Cambridge University Press. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570616000282en
dc.subjectDC Franceen
dc.subjectM Musicen
dc.subjectPB Modern European Languagesen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject.lccDCen
dc.subject.lccM1en
dc.subject.lccPBen
dc.titleIphigénie en Haïti : performing Gluck's Paris operas in the French colonial Caribbeanen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Frenchen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S1478570616000282
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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