Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T15:44:39.258Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Aida's flutes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2003

GABRIELA CRUZ
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

After years spent reflecting on Western imperial practices, critic Edward Said wrote that Giuseppe Verdi's Aida is ‘a kind of curatorial art’, a work

whose rigorous and unbending frame recall[s], with relentless mortuary logic, a precise historical moment and a specifically dated aesthetic form, an imperial spectacle designed to alienate and impress an almost exclusively European audience.

Type
Regular Articles
Information
Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 1-2 , March 2002 , pp. 177 - 200
Copyright
2002 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)