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Opera Across Borders
Word, Image, Scene, and Digital Transformations
Edited by Angela Albanese, Marina Bondi, Benedetta Bronzini, and Vincenzo Gannuscio
The Series: Transcodification: Arts, Languages and Media
De Gruyter – Berlin/Boston (publication forthcoming: January 2026).
Through a multidisciplinary approach, the book explores methods, strategies and platforms for the circulation and dissemination of opera in contemporary times within an international context. Contributions examine genre transformations, adaptations and remediations of opera, as well as multimedia tools and strategies aimed at engaging new generations with musical theatre.
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Contents
Angela Albanese, Marina Bondi, Benedetta Bronzini, and Vincenzo Gannuscio
Introduction: A Diachronic Journey Across the Borders of the Operatic Genre
Angela Albanese
Opera as a Popular Genre? Verdi Parodies at the San Carlino Theatre in Naples
Alberto Mammarella
Un bagno freddo o Una notte fortunata: An Unknown and Unpublished Source for the Reconstruction of Neapolitan Musical Theatre in the Late 19th Century
Gaetano Stella
Pietro Platania’s Spartaco: A Forgotten Success Between Erudition and Verismo
Maurizio Giri, Damiana Leone, Riccardo Santoboni, and Mauro Santopietro
Spartacus 2.0: Rewriting and Remediation of a Forgotten Opera from the Late 19th-Century Neapolitan School
Giovanna Buonanno
Italian International Divas in 19th-Century London
Silvia Del Zoppo
L’Antologia di Spoon River a Milano: Actualizations and Reinterpretations of a “Secular Oratorio”
Uta Felten
Opera for a Postmodern Generation: From Sellars’ Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte to Serebrennikov
Marc Jeannin
Bringing Opera to Broader Audiences: Innovations and Emotions
Benedetta Bronzini
Opera for All? Contemporary Strategies of Dissemination and Social Commitment of the Komische Oper Berlin as a Case Study
Federica G. Pedriali
The Global Utopia of Art: Operatic Containers, Broken Pacts, and the Politics of Dispersal
Carmen Ceschel
Christine Sun Kim’s Face Opera II: Opera Beyond the Borders of Sound
Jesse Rosenberg
Opera and Race: A Bulletin on an American University Course
Antonella Coppi
Afterword: Polimnia and Opera for All between Musicology and Lifelong Learning. An Artistic Project for Social Change