Totaleindruck o impresión total: La Telésfora de Aquinas Ried como proyecto político, creación literario-musical, reflejo personal y encuentro con el otro. Totaleindruck or total impression. Aquinas Ried's Telésfora as a Political Project, a Literary and Musical Creation, a Personal Reflection and an Encounter with the Others.

During the 19th century, Italian opera became truly transatlantic and its rapid expansion is one of the most exciting new areas of study in music and the performing arts. Beyond the Atlantic coasts, opera searched for new spaces to expand its reach. This Element discusses about the Italian opera in Andean countries like Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia during the 1840s and focuses on opera as a product that both challenged and was challenged in the Andes by other forms of performing arts, behaviours, technologies, material realities, and business models.

The 1844 Teatro Victoria in Valparaiso, Chile, can be considered the first purpose-built opera house in the Andean region of the Americas. Managed by impresario Pietro Alessandri, it became the centre of an early operatic scene in the South Pacific and a model for theatres built during the following decades. In this article, I discuss the Teatro Victoria as an opera house and the way in which it functioned on the borders of what was then a new global operatic scene. Latin American research on opera has focused mostly on singers and performances, rather than on the workings of the opera houses and the operatic scene. This article discusses the rationale behind the development of the Teatro Victoria project, some of the strategies underpinning its success and the notion of this particular opera house as a projection of certain ideas of ‘Italian culture’ and networks. The article shows, first, that the successful reception and appropriation of Italian opera in this period was not necessarily guaranteed, and it differed across the Americas. Second, that local brokers and host communities had key roles in shaping that reception, which can easily be perceived as a passive one when looked at only from the perspective of the singers or the music itself.

Si bien la figura del compositor Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado ha sido reconocida por la historiografía musical boliviana y peruana desde mediados del siglo XIX, solo con la aparición de sus partituras en una colección privada y posterior adquisición de la misma por varias instituciones e individuos su figura ha saltado a un primer plano en el estudio de los repertorios históricos de América del Sur. Sin embargo, y pese al interés que ha generado en intérpretes y musicólogos, es evidente que su biografía ha seguido construyéndose sobre la base de mitos previos y considerando un porcentaje mínimo de fuentes. Por lo mismo, este trabajo pretende dar nuevas luces respecto de Pedro Ximénez, particularmente de carácter biográfico, entendiendo su contexto y transición entre Perú y Bolivia a la luz de gran cantidad de documentos nuevos rastreados por los autores.Palabras clave: siglo diecinueve, música boliviana, música peruana, maestro de capilla, sinfonías. Since the mid-nineteenth century the name of Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado has been known in musicological and

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