ISBN: 9780754629009 - Opera Remade, 1700–1750 (the Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies) (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, xxviii + 501 pages, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.26kg. A bump/crease in lower outer corner of pages 50-310 (approx); wear to tips of other page corners. Book is clean and bright throughout, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle creases to corners; an ISBN sticker on the back. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Opera in the first half of the eighteenth century saw the rise of the memorable composer and the memorable work. Recent research on this period has been especially fruitful, showing renewed interest in how opera operated within its local cultures, what audience members felt was at stake in opera performances, who the people-composers and performers-were who made opera possible. The essays for this volume capture the principal themes of current research: the "idea" of opera, opera criticism, the people of opera, and the emerging technologies of opera. -- Contents: Part I Librettos: 1. Why Early Opera Is Roman and Not Greek / Robert C. Ketterer 2. Staging an Opera: Letters from the Cesarian Poet / Roger Savage 3. Dramatic Dualities: Opera Pairs from Minato to Metastasio/ Reinhard Strohm 4. Metastasio on the Spanish Stage: Operatic Adaptations in the Public Theatres of Madrid in the 1730s / José-Máximo Leza 5. 'Le théâtre ne change qu'à la troisième scène': The Hand of the Author and Unity of Place in Act V of Hippolyte et Aricie / Geoffrey Burgess 6. The Beggar's Opera and opéra-comique en vaudevilles / Daniel Heartz; 'His spirit is in action seen': Milton, Mrs Clive and the Simulacra of the Pastoral in Comus / Berta Joncus; -- Part II Gender: 8. Reforming Achilles: Gender, Opera Seria and the Rhetoric of the Enlightened Hero / Wendy Heller 9. Female Operatic Cross-Dressing: Bernardo Saddumene's Libretto for Leonardo Vinci's Li zite 'n galera (1722) / Nina Treadwell 10. Of Women, Sex and Folly: Opera under the Old Regime / Georgia Cowart 11. The Castrato as History / Katherine Bergeron; -- Part III Theatres and Performing: 12. 'An infinity of factions': Opera in Eighteenth-Century Britain and the Undoing of Society / Suzanne Aspden 13. Ignaz Holzbauer and the Origins of German Opera in Vienna / Lawrence Bennett 14. Heidegger and the Management of the Haymarket Opera, 1713-1717 / Judith Milhous & Robert D. Hume 15. Farinelli in Madrid: Opera, Politics, and the War of Jenkins' Ear / Thomas McGeary 16. An 18th-Century Singer's Commission of 'Baggage' Arias / Daniel E. Freeman 17. Staging and Its Dramatic Effect in French Baroque Opera: Evidence from Prompt Notes / Antonia L. Banducci 18. The Paris Opéra Chorus During the Time of Rameau / Mary Cyr 19. What Recitatives Owe to the Airs: A Look at the Dialogue Scene, Act I Scene 2 of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie - Version with Airs / Cynthia Verba; -- Part IV Handel: 20. Irony and Borrowing in Handel's 'Agrippina' / John E. Sawyer 21. Classical History and Handel's 'Alessandro' / Richard G. King 22. Dejanira and the Physicians: Aspects of Hysteria in Handel's Hercules / David Ross Hurley 23. Handel's Compositional Methods in His London Operas of the 1730s, and the Unusual Case of 'Poro, rè dell'Indie' (1731) / Graham Cummings; Name Index.…

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