Larry Wolff is Professor of History and Director of the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. He is the author of Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice, The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment, and Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment-all published by Stanford University Press. Visit Larry Wolff's website at [...]

Introduction

1. The Captive Sultan: Operatic Transfigurations of the Ottoman

Menace after the Siege of Vienna

2. The Generous Turk: Captive Christians and Operatic Comedy in Paris

3. The Triumphant Sultana: Suleiman and His Operatic Harem

4. The Turkish Subjects of Gluck and Haydn: Comic Opera in War And Peace

5. Osmin in Vienna: Mozart's Abduction and the Centennial of the Ottoman Siege

6. "To Honor the Emperor": Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph Ii in the Age of Enlightened Absolutism

7. The Ottoman Adventures of Rossini and Napoleon: Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala

8. Pappataci and Kaimakan: Reflections in a Mediterranean Mirror

9. An Ottoman Prince in the Romantic Imagination: The Libertine Adventures of Rossini's Turkish Traveler

10. Maometto in Naples and Venice: The Operatic Charisma of the Conqueror

11. Rossini's Siege of Paris: Ottoman Subjects in the French Restoration

12. The Decline and Disappearance of the Singing Turk: Ottoman Reform, the Eastern Question, and the European Operatic Repertory

Conclusion