Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi

Herausgeber: Hoxby, Blair

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy â often described as antithetical forms of theatre â from the 1630s to the 1780s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503512
• ISBN-10: 1487503512
• Artikelnr.: 67614459

Autorenporträt

Edited by Blair Hoxby

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Blair Hoxby
1. Machine Plays in France: Between Italian Opera and French Tragedy in
Music
Hélène Visentin
2. Opera, Tragedy, and Tragédie en Musique between Lully and Rameau
Blair Hoxby
3. Tragedy in Flux
Downing A. Thomas
4. Temptations of Love: Negotiating Tragic and Pastoral Inheritances at the
Crossroads of Opera’s Early Modern History
Stefanie Tcharos
5. Claiming Women’s Moral Agency: Luisa Bergalli as Poet Librettist
Francesca Savoia
6. Metastasio’s Theatre and Early Modern Political Philosophy: Tyrannicide,
Clemency, Natural Law
Enrico Zucchi
7. Game of Thrones in the Russian Empire: Metastasio Revisited for St
Petersburg
Tatiana Korneeva
8. Recognition Scenes: Handel’s Oreste, Audience Reception, and Competition
at the London Opera
Robert C. Ketterer
9. Terror and Intoxication: Calzabigi’s Ipermestra o Le Danaidi
(1778-1784)
Magnus Tessing Schneider
10. From Serio to Sentimental: The Legacy of Tragic Opera in Carlo
Goldoni’s Drammi Giocosi per Musica
Pervinca Rista
Bibliography
Contributor List
Index