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  • Chapter 8 - From Novella to Theatre and Opera

  • from Part II - Translation, Nation-state and Post-nationalism
  • Edited by Avishek Ganguly, Rhode Island School of Design, Kélina Gotman, King's College London
  • Book:
    Performance and Translation in a Global Age
    Published online:
    10 August 2023
    Print publication:
    29 June 2023, pp 186-200

  • Summary

    This chapter examines what it meant to perform translation in Cavalleria rusticana. It examines: 1) the original novella written by Giovanni Verga in 1880; 2) the 1884 stage version adapted by the author and interpreted by a variety of star actors, including Eleonora Duse and the Sicilian dialect players; and 3) the 1890 operatic version composed by Pietro Mascagni and performed by celebrity sopranos, such as Emma Calvé. Through close examination of newspaper reviews and early accounts, it is argued that performing translation meant generating and circulating an exoticized ‘brand’ of Sicilian-ness in and outside the Italian peninsula shortly after political unification in 1861. This chapter thus offers new perspectives into questions of racial stereotypes, and a provides basis for new insights into the Sicilian dialect players, in particular, who, pioneering a physical and bodily form of communication, transcended language barriers and mediated the foreign text through a kind of translation that went beyond the written word.