The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera
Part of Cambridge Companions to Music
- Editors:
- Anthony R. DelDonna, Georgetown University, Washington DC
- Pierpaolo Polzonetti, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
- Date Published: June 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521695381
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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.
Read more- Demonstrates why eighteenth-century opera is still relevant to us today, covering the reasons for its ongoing popular and critical success
- Perfect for undergraduate and graduate courses on eighteenth-century opera, a key topic in music studies
- The contributors represent a wide range of countries, reflecting the international nature of eighteenth-century opera
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'This Companion has succeeded in its aim to address a wide range of skills and interests. The style is always accessible … It cannot fail to leave its readers enlightened.' Musical Times
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- Date Published: June 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521695381
- length: 344 pages
- dimensions: 247 x 175 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.68kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus. 15 tables 41 music examples
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Chronology of relevant events in eighteenth-century opera
Part I. The Making of Opera:
1. Opera as process Pierpaolo Polzonetti
2. Aria as drama James Webster
3. Ensembles and finales Caryl Clark
4. Metastasio: the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione
5. Roles and acting Gianni Cicali
6. Ballet Rebecca Harris-Warrick
7. Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera John Spitzer
8. To look again (at Don Giovanni) Alessandra Campana
Part II. National Styles and Genres:
9. Genre and form in French opera David Charlton
10. Genre and form in German opera Estelle Joubert
11. Opera in eighteenth-century England: English opera, masques, ballad operas Michael Burden
12. Opera in Naples Anthony R. DelDonna
13. Portugal and Brazil Manuel Carlos de Brito
14. Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies Louise Stein and José Máximo Leza.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Introduction to Opera
- Proseminar in Music, 1700-1800
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