The Culture of Italian Music: Opera and Colonialism – Prof. Paolo Bartoloni: Introduction, Mario Inglese: The Italian Language and Opera: Verdi and Puccini – Alessandro Luchetti: The Music of Italian Colonization in Africa: Racism and Sexism

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Italian Studies

The Culture of Italian Music: Opera and Colonialism

Prof. Paolo Bartoloni: Introduction

Mario Inglese: The Italian Language and Opera: Verdi and Puccini

Alessandro Luchetti: The Music of Italian Colonization in Africa: Racism and Sexism

Mario Inglese’s talk will focus on some traits of Italian as employed in Verdi’s late operas (Otello and Falstaff) and Puccini’s mature works. While considering the obvious differences in age and style, one must remember that the careers of these two giants of operatic music did overlap, albeit for a short span of time.

Mario Inglese is a Research Scholar at NUIG. He has taught at various universities in the US, Australia, and Canada. He has published extensively in the field of literary criticism, poetry, applied linguistics, and opera and literature.

Alessandro Luchetti’s talk will discuss the impact of colonial propaganda songs on Fascist society. A selection of songs from the late Thirties will be analysed in order to observe how racist and sexist stereotypes helped build a consensus around the colonial enterprise.

Alessandro Luchetti is a PhD Student at NUIG. His main research interest focuses on postcolonial literature in Italian.

For more information please contact mario_inglese@yahoo.com