Opera in the Teaching of Italian in the World

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_250
dc.title	Opera in the Teaching of Italian in the World. Form Theory to Practical Issues
dc.contributor.author	Balboni Paolo E.
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2015/2/lopera-e-linsegnamento-dellitaliano-nel-mondo/
dc.description.abstract	Each year the Italian government chooses a topic as the focus of the ‘week of Italian in the world’, to be held late in October. Researchers, institutions and practitioners in the field of Italian as a FL are asked to focus their work on the topic of the year, which is The Italian of music, the music of Italian in 2015. In this essay the leading figure of Itals, the research and formation centre of Italian as a second and foreign language of Venice University, discusses the importance of a type of Italian music, i.e. the opera, which had and still has an important role in the spread of the Italian language and culture. The main idea of the essay is that the opera is not just a form of theatre, but the theatre in Italy in the xix century, both as far as quantitative and qualitative literary production is concerned, and because it was the opera that attracted the attention of both literate and illiterate Italians, and it was the operas, and not the normal dramas, that discussed the political, social and existential issues that were relevant in those years.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Issue 2 \| July 2015
dc.issued	2015-07-01
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2280-6792/EL.LE-4-2-15-0
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Music and language teaching
dc.subject	Music and language teaching
dc.subject	Opera and the teaching of Italian
dc.subject	Opera and the teaching of Italian
dc.subject	Opera as drama
dc.subject	Opera as drama
dc.subject	Promotion of the Italian heritage Italian courses
dc.subject	Promotion of the Italian heritage Italian courses
dc.subject	Songs and language teaching
dc.subject	Songs and language teaching
dc.subject	Teaching literature
dc.subject	Teaching literature

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Form Theory to Practical Issues

Paolo E. Balboni Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Each year the Italian government chooses a topic as the focus of the ‘week of Italian in the world’, to be held late in October. Researchers, institutions and practitioners in the field of Italian as a FL are asked to focus their work on the topic of the year, which is The Italian of music, the music of Italian in 2015. In this essay the leading figure of Itals, the research and formation centre of Italian as a second and foreign language of Venice University, discusses the importance of a type of Italian music, i.e. the opera, which had and still has an important role in the spread of the Italian language and culture. The main idea of the essay is that the opera is not just a form of theatre, but the theatre in Italy in the xix century, both as far as quantitative and qualitative literary production is concerned, and because it was the opera that attracted the attention of both literate and illiterate Italians, and it was the operas, and not the normal dramas, that discussed the political, social and existential issues that were relevant in those years.

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Keywords: Opera and the teaching of Italian • Music and language teaching • Songs and language teaching • Teaching literature • Opera as drama • Promotion of the Italian heritage Italian courses

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