Opera and Vivaldi /

Opera and Vivaldi / / ed. by Elise K. Kirk, Michael Collins.

From the New York Times review of the Dallas Opera's performance of Orlando furioso and the international symposium on Baroque opera: ". . . it was a serious, thoughtful, consistent and imaginative realization of a beautiful, long-neglected work, one that fully deserved all the loving atte...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Barcham, William L.,
Brand, C. Peter,
Brown, Howard Mayer,
Collins, Michael,
Covell, Roger,
Cross, Eric,
Cyr, Mary,
Hansell, Sven,
Harris, Ellen T.,
Hill, John Walter,
Holmes, William C.,
Kirk, Elise K.,
Kropfinger, Klaus,
McClymonds, Marita P.,
Porter, Andrew,
Rosand, Ellen,
Schmidgall, Gary,
Selfridge-Field, Eleanor,
Wynne, Shirley,
HerausgeberIn:
Collins, Michael,
Kirk, Elise K.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1984
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. Literary Sources and Their Transformation into Opera
  • Dramatic Theory and the Italian Baroque Libretto
  • Mythological Subjects in Opera Seria
  • Ariosto and the Oral Tradition
  • Ariosto's Orlando and Opera Seria
  • Orlando in Seicento Venice: The Road Not Taken
  • Eighteenth-Century Orlando: Hero5 Satyr, and Fool
  • PART II. Venetian Opera in Its Cultural Milieu
  • Venetian Theaters during Vivaldi's Era
  • Costume in the Frescoes of Tiepolo and Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera
  • Baroque Manners and Passions in Modern Performance
  • Opera Criticism and the Venetian Press
  • PART III. The Practice of Opera Seria
  • Voice Register as an Index of Age and Status in Opera Seria
  • Cadential Structures and Accompanimental Practices in Eighteenth-Century Italian Recitative
  • Declamation and Expressive Singing in Recitative
  • Embellishing Eighteenth-Century Arias: On Cadenzas
  • PART IV. Vivaldi as Dramatic Composer
  • The Relationship between Text and Music in the Operas of Vivaldi
  • Vivaldi as Self-Borrower
  • Vivaldi's Orlando: Sources and Contributing Factors
  • PART V. Baroque Opera Today
  • Preparing the Critical Edition: An Interview with Alan Curtis
  • Opera Seria Today: A Credo
  • APPENDIX
  • Contributors
  • Index

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