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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico -- Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. Ketterer -- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess -- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment -- Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm -- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Opera -- France -- 18th century.
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Opera. |
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France. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Opera -- Italy.
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Italy. |
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Mythology, Classical, in opera.
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Mythology, Classical, in opera. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Forment, Bruno, 1978-
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| Added Title |
Disembodying myths in Ancien Régime opera |
| Other Form: |
Print version: (Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Leuven : Leuven UP 2012 9789058679000 (OCoLC)779881606 |
| ISBN |
9789461660572 electronic book |
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946166057X electronic book |
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9789058679000 |
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9058679004 |
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