The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera / edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
DelDonna, Anthony.; Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.
2009
ML1704 .C36 2009 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera / edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
ISBN 9780521873581
0521873584
9780521695381 (pbk.)
0521695384 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Language English
Description xxiii, 316 p. : ill., music ; 26 cm.
Call Number ML1704 .C36 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.109/033
Summary Reflecting a wide variety of approaches to eighteenth-century opera, this Companion brings together leading international experts in the field to provide a valuable reference source. Viewing opera as a complex and fascinating form of art and social ritual, rather than reducing it simply to music and text analysis, individual essays investigate aspects such as audiences, architecture of the theaters, marketing, acting style, and the politics and strategy of representing class and gender. Overall, the volume provides a synthesis of well established knowledge, reflects recent research on eighteenth-century opera, and stimulates further research. The reader is encouraged to view opera as a cultural phenomenon that can reveal aspects of our culture, both past and present. Eighteenth-century opera is experiencing continuing critical and popular success through innovative and provoking productions world-wide, and this Companion will appeal to opera goers as well as to students and teachers of this key topic.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author DelDonna, Anthony.
Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.
Series Cambridge companions to music.
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Opera as process / Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Aria as drama / James Webster
Ensembles and finales / Caryl Clark
Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera / Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione
Roles and acting / Gianni Cicali
Ballet / Rebecca Harris-Warrick
Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera / John Spitzer
To look again (at Don Giovanni) / Alessandra Campana
Genre and form in French opera / David Charlton
Genre and form in German opera / Estelle Joubert
Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas / Michael Burden
Opera in Naples / Anthony R. DelDonna
Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlos de Brito
Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein, Jóse Máximo Leza.

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