(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives

(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Bruno Forment.

Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes...

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Other Authors: Forment, Bruno
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven : Leuven UP, 2012.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Opera > France > 17th century.
Opera > France > 18th century.
Opera > Italy.
Mythology, Classical, in opera.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > General.
Mythology, Classical, in opera
Opera
France
Italy
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Table of Contents:
  • Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico
  • Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. Ketterer
  • Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess
  • Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment
  • Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm
  • Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt.

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