Opera In Seventeenth Century Venice

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520254268

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Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice by Ellen Rosand Pdf

"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers—producing the art form that was soon to sweep the world and that has been dominant ever since—are revealed in their first freshness."—Andrew Porter "This will be a standard work on the subject of the rise of Venetian opera for decades. Rosand has provided a decisive contribution to the reshaping of the entire subject. . . . She offers a profoundly new view of baroque opera based on a solid documentary and historical-critical foundation. The treatment of the artistic self-consciousness and professional activities of the librettists, impresarios, singers, and composers is exemplary, as is the examination of their reciprocal relations. This work will have a positive effect not only on studies of 17th-century, but on the history of opera in general."—Lorenzo Bianconi

Author : Simon Towneley Worsthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Dramatic music
ISBN : UOM:39015009426027

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Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century by Simon Towneley Worsthorne Pdf

Author : Ellen Rosand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520933273

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Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy by Ellen Rosand Pdf

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)—from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works as not merely a pair but constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera, Le nozze d'Enea (1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two operas opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of an old master. A thorough review of manuscript and printed sources of Ritorno and Poppea, in conjunction with those of their erstwhile silent companion, offers new possibilities for resolving the questions of authenticity that have swirled around Monteverdi's last operas since their discovery in the late nineteenth century. Le nozze d'Enea also helps to explain the striking differences between the other two, casting new light on their contrasting moral ethos: the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon.

Author : Wendy Heller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520919341

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Emblems of Eloquence by Wendy Heller Pdf

Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality—was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological women whose voices were heard on the Venetian operatic stage. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this engaging study is the first comprehensive treatment of women, gender, and sexuality in seventeenth-century opera. Wendy Heller explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny, and desire, showing how the emerging genre was shaped by and infused with the Republic's taste for the erotic and its ambivalent attitudes toward women and sexuality. Heller begins by examining contemporary Venetian writings about gender and sexuality that influenced the development of female vocality in opera. The Venetian reception and transformation of ancient texts—by Ovid, Virgil, Tacitus, and Diodorus Siculus—form the background for her penetrating analyses of the musical and dramatic representation of five extraordinary women as presented in operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, and their successors in Venice: Dido, queen of Carthage (Cavalli); Octavia, wife of Nero (Monteverdi); the nymph Callisto (Cavalli); Queen Semiramis of Assyria (Pietro Andrea Ziani); and Messalina, wife of Claudius (Carlo Pallavicino).

Author : Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195342970

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Inventing the Business of Opera by Beth Glixon,Jonathan Glixon Pdf

Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stages of Venice during the seventeenth century. All of the components necessary to opera production are highlighted, from the financial backing, to the libretto and the score, to the singers, dancers, the scenery, and the costumes.

Author : Eugene J. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108421744

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Inventing the Opera House by Eugene J. Johnson Pdf

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

Author : Beth Lise Glixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199868484

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Inventing the Business of Opera by Beth Lise Glixon Pdf

Marco Faustini was among the most active and successful professionals in 17th-century Venetian opera. Through examination of Marco Faustini's documents, Beth and Jonathan Glixon provide a comprehensive view of opera production in mid-17th century Venice.

Author : BethL. Glixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351547635

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Studies in Seventeenth-Century Opera by BethL. Glixon Pdf

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.

Author : Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0804744378

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A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 by Eleanor Selfridge-Field Pdf

From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.

Author : Eleanor Selfridge-Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : ART
ISBN : 1503619974

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A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760 by Eleanor Selfridge-Field Pdf

From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.

Author : Emily Wilbourne
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226401577

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Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell’Arte by Emily Wilbourne Pdf

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

Author : Edward Muir
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674041264

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The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance by Edward Muir Pdf

In this book, Muir explores an era of cultural innovation that promoted free inquiry in the face of philosophical and theological orthodoxy, advocated libertine morals, critiqued the tyranny of aristocratic fathers over their daughters, and expanded the theatrical potential of grand opera. In so doing, he reveals the distinguished past of today's culture wars, including debates about the place of women in society, the clash between science and faith, and the power of the arts to stir emotions.

Author : Reinhard Strohm
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0300064543

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Dramma Per Musica by Reinhard Strohm Pdf

'Dramma per musica', the most usual term for Italian serious opera from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, was a modern, enlightened form of theater that presented a unified, artistically designed, dramatic enactment of human stories, expressed by the voice and underscored by the orchestra. This book illustrates the diversity of this baroque art form and explains how it has given us opera as we know it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521823593

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The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon Towneley Worsthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Opera
ISBN : 0306762277

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Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century by Simon Towneley Worsthorne Pdf