Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma
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As Loomis deftly demonstrates, Traetta’s operas were largely oriented toward the formal aria, a byproduct of making Italian music an essential component of this cross-cultural fusion. Nevertheless, they were strikingly innovative in their use of chorus, integrated dance, and accompanied recitative. Structurally, the operas reflect the French distinction between scenes of action and divertissements. After a brief flowering, the project was abandoned, primarily for lack of interest, but Traetta’s Parma operas deserve a previously unrecognized place in the history of Western music for their stimulation of opera seria in Italy and beyond. This included the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose genre-defining Idomeneo (1781) proved a turning point in the development of opera.
George W. Loomis
George Loomis has more than 30 years of experience as a writer about music in the United States, Europe, and Russia. His reviews and articles have appeared in many publications, including the Financial Times, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the New Criterion, Opera magazine and Musical America. A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music and its Law School, he also holds a Ph.D. in music history from Yale. After practicing law in New York, he resumed musical pursuits full-time in 1996 upon moving to Russia, where he wrote regularly for the American and British press. Since 2012 he has been New York co-correspondent for Opera. He is a permanent member of the jury of the International Opera Awards and is co-chairman of the Music Critics Association of North America's New Opera Award Committee.
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