“Italiana nell’arte, americana negli affari”: Clara Weiss and the operetta industry between Italy and South America

Between the last decade of the 19th century and the first ones of the 20th century, a large number of Italian operetta companies crossed the Atlantic to explore the South American theatre market, formed largely by an immigrant audience. On these tours, many artists ended up settling in the New World...

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Autor: de Almeida Bessa, Virgínia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repositorio:ArtCultura (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/73167
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/73167
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Clara Weiss
opereta
imigração italiana na América do Sul
operetta
Italian immigration do South America
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Sumario:Between the last decade of the 19th century and the first ones of the 20th century, a large number of Italian operetta companies crossed the Atlantic to explore the South American theatre market, formed largely by an immigrant audience. On these tours, many artists ended up settling in the New World. This was the case of Clara Weiss, an Italian actress-singer who became capocomic in South America, but remained closely linked to the Italian operettistic world, establishing a bridge between the two universes.