Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi

Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
Author: Blair Hoxby
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2024-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487518099

Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on “neighbouring forms” of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragédie en machines, tragédie en musique, and Goldoni’s dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 801
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ISBN: 0192690892

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature
Author: Matthew C. Augustine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192690884

The Oxford Handbook of Restoration Literature begins by asking if there was a distinctive literature of the Restoration. For a long time, the answer seemed obvious: heroic drama, libertine comedy, scandalous lyrics, and the short but brilliant career of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester. Could there be an age when the coincidence of literary culture and political rule were any more obvious? But as this Handbook will remind us, some of the most wonderful literature of this Restoration came from writers who had lived across the decades of turbulence and into an age when the Stuart kings returned, when the Church and House of Lords were restored, a world made safe for bishops and for the memory of divine right rule. Of course, these returns and restorations did not meet with uniform celebration. John Milton wrote his great epic poems not in quiet submission but in a kind of resistance to the dominant culture of the 1660s, and Andrew Marvell produced his most brilliant satiric verse by holding up a looking glass to court corruption and Anglican intolerance. So we begin with the most obvious conclusion: Restoration literature does and does not fit to the categories that so long defined the late Stuart age. This book explores and contests, challenges and reimagines the experience embodied by the writing of the late Stuart world and invites readers new to this world and those who have often read its literatures to the pleasures but as well to the challenges and discomforts of its texts.

Opera in the Age of Rousseau

Opera in the Age of Rousseau
Author: David Charlton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0521887607

A wide-ranging account of opera on stage and in society in the age of Rousseau, from Rameau to Gluck.

Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven

Morality and Viennese Opera in the Age of Mozart and Beethoven
Author: Martin Nedbal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1317094093

This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about German national theater. In Vienna, the idea that vernacular theater should cultivate the moral sensibilities of its German-speaking audiences became prominent during the reign of Empress Maria Theresa, when advocates of German plays and operas attempted to deflect the imperial government from supporting exclusively French and Italian theatrical performances. Morality continued to be a dominant aspect of Viennese operatic culture in the following decades, as critics, state officials, librettists, and composers (including Gluck, Mozart, and Beethoven) attempted to establish and define German national opera. Viennese concepts of operatic didacticism and national identity in theater further transformed in response to the crisis of Emperor Joseph II’s reform movement, the revolutionary ideas spreading from France, and the war efforts in facing Napoleonic aggression. The imperial government promoted good morals in theatrical performances through the institution of theater censorship, and German-opera authors cultivated intensely didactic works (such as Die Zauberflöte and Fidelio) that eventually became the cornerstones for later developments of German culture.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama
Author: E. Cobham Brewer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3734093228

Reproduction of the original: Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama by E. Cobham Brewer

Modernism and Opera

Modernism and Opera
Author: Richard Begam
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2016-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1421420627

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Tosca's Prism

Tosca's Prism
Author: Deborah Burton
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781555536169

Distinguished musicologists, historians, theater professionals, and luminaries of the operatic stage reflect on European history in 1800, 1900 and 2000 through the prism of Puccini's Tosca.