Cimarosa a la Garrotxa:recepció i pràctica domèstica de l'òpera italiana del segle XVIII i inicis del segle XIX a Olot
ISSN: 1578-5297
Year of publication: 2019
Issue: 12
Pages: 223-258
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista catalana de musicologia
Abstract
This paper deals with the presence of about thirty manuscripts of 18th and early 19thcentury Italian operas in the musical archive of Sant Esteve d’Olot (Regional Archive of La Garrotxa), found in the course of the IFMuC project. These finds are particularly remarkable because of the lack of operatic manuscripts from this period in Catalonia. Here we seek to contextualize this material within the context of everyday life in Olot, with special regard to a still littleknown aspect of the musical life of this town and of Catalonia at large: opera performance in the domestic settings of welltodo families and specifically of the Conill family in this case.