ABSTRACT
The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scholars have dealt with the associated areas of dance and scenery, as well as newer disciplines such as studies of patronage, gender, and semiotics. While most of the essays in the volume pertain to Italian opera, others concern opera production in France, England, Spain and the Germanic countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|71 pages
Seventeenth-Century Opera: The Early Years
part II|131 pages
Monteverdi and Cavalli
part III|77 pages
Italian Opera during the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
chapter 9|25 pages
Dances from the “Four Corners of the Earth”
Exoticism in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera
part IV|185 pages
Opera Outside Italy