Sono io/Ich bin?La polièdrica identitat nacional a través delgènere líric entre els segles xix i xx

Laburpena

The lyric genre has been a privileged platform for the redefinition of European national identities. The process of national assertion and the quest for identity set the trend on the music, the arguments and libretti, the dramaturgical precepts that governed operistic conventionalism and also the mise-en-scène. The success or failure of the complex national patterns in Europe across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, could be interpreted as a polyhedral reality. The methodology of study will be based on the analysis of some lyric titles from two different perspectives: the author’s intent, and the reception of the piece, which will be studied from an emic and ethical approach. This paper suggests that the construction of borders can be divided into four chronological stages and that it exhibits both acceptance and rejection of patterns