The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera /
DelDonna, Anthony.
Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Opera as process / Pierpaolo Polzonetti -- Aria as drama / James Webster -- Ensembles and finales / Caryl Clark -- Metastasio : the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera / Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione -- Roles and acting / Gianni Cicali -- Ballet / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera / John Spitzer -- To look again (at Don Giovanni) / Alessandra Campana -- Genre and form in French opera / David Charlton -- Genre and form in German opera / Estelle Joubert -- Opera in eighteenth-century England : English opera, masques, ballad operas / Michael Burden -- Opera in Naples / Anthony R. DelDonna -- Portugal and Brazil / Manuel Carlos de Brito -- Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies / Louise K. Stein and Jóse Máximo Leza.
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