Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy

Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy / Ellen Rosand.

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works--Il ritorno d'Ulisse (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)--f...

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Main Author: Rosand, Ellen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Series:Evers Renaissance studies.
Subjects:
Monteverdi, Claudio, > 1567-1643. > Operas.
Opera > Italy > 17th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Orpheus in Venice. Prologue ; A new Ulysses ; The myth of Venice
  • Discoveries and reception. Scholarship ; Performance
  • Sources and authenticity : three librettos. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ; Le nozze d'Enea e Lavinia ; L'incoronazione di Poppea
  • Two scores. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ; L'incoronazione di Poppea
  • Ancients and moderns. A question of genre ; Five acts or three ; Modern Taste
  • A master of three servants. Monteverdi's way with words ; Speech and song, recitative and aria ; The role of meter ; Fashioning the "just ;ament" : Arianna's Venetian progeny ; Comedy
  • Constructions of character. Shaping an epic or rewriting Penelope ; The wily hero ; Deepening a psychological drama
  • The philosopher and the parasite. Heroic pedant, ambiguous philosopher ; Tragic buffoon ; Directors and critics ; Music and text ; Post mortem
  • Epilogue
  • Appendixes. Giacomo Badoaro, Il ritorno d'Ulisse, preface ; Argomento et scenario delle Nozze d'Enea in Lavinia ; Giacomo Badoaro, Ulisse errante, preface ; L'incoronazione di Poppea : argomento, scenario, preface ; Il ritorno d'Ulisse : Badoaro's argomento compared with Dolce's Allegorie and Dolce's argomenti compared with Badoaro's structure ; Le nozze d'Enea e Lavinia : scenario compared with Dolce's allegorie ; Supernatural scenes ; Singers.

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