@article{343015,
      recid = {343015},
      author = {DelDonna, Anthony. and Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.},
      title = {The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera /},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, U.K. ;},
      pages = {xxiii, 316 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/343015},
}