| Description |
xxxiii, 479 pages : illustration, facsimiles, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; [v. 1]
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Ashgate library of essays in opera studies ; v. 1.
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| Note |
Essays and articles reprinted from a variety of sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxxiii) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Seventeenth-century opera : the early years -- Singing Orfeo : on the performers of Monteverdi's first opera / Tim Carter -- Training a singer for Musica recitativa in early seventeenth-century Italy : the case of Baldassare / John Walter Hill -- Re-voicing Arianna (and laments) : two women respond -- Suzanne G. Cusick -- -- pt. II. Monteverdi and Cavalli -- Monteverdi's mimetic art : L'incoronazione di Poppea / Ellen Rosand -- Tacitus incognito : opera as history in L'incoronazione di Poppea / Wendy Heller -- Didone by Cavalli and Busenello : from the sources to modern productions / Dinko Fabris -- Censoring Eliogabalo in seventeenth-century Venice / Mauro Calcagno -- -- pt. III. Italian opera during the second half of the seventeenth century -- La sirena antica dell'Adriatico : Caterina Porri, a seventeenth-century Roman prima donna on the stages of Venice, Bologna and Pavia / Beth L. Glixon -- Dances from the "four corners of the Earth" : exoticism in seventeenth-century Venetian opera / Irene Alm -- On the road with the "suitcase aria" : the transmission of borrowed arias in late seventeenth-century Italian opera revivals / Jennifer Williams Brown -- -- pt. IV. Opera outside of Italy -- Why the first opera given in Paris wasn't Roman / Margaret Murata -- The articulation of Lully's dramatic dialogue / Lois Rosow -- Recovering the Lullian divertissement / Rebecca Harris-Warwick -- Opera and the Spanish political agenda / Louise K. Stein -- What did Handel learn from Steffani's operas? / Colin Timms -- Performance and political allegory in Restoration England : what to interpret and when / Andrew R. Walkling -- The politics of opera in late seventeenth-century London / Robert D. Hume. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Europe -- 17th century.
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Opera. |
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Europe. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Added Author |
Glixon, Beth Lise, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9780754629016 hardback |
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0754629015 hardback |
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