The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century opera
By: edited by Anthony R. DelDonna and Pierpaolo Polzonetti.
Contributors: DelDonna, Anthony.; Polzonetti, Pierpaolo.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521873581
Subjects: Opera -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of opera. 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; title: National styles and genres. 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 Stein and Jose Maximo Leza.