Opera libretti of the eighteenth century
Subtitle: essays on the libretto as enlightenment text
By: edited and compiled by Pamela Gay-White ; with a foreword by Alfred E. Lemmon
Contributors: Ray, Marcie; Zeiss, Laurel; Hodson, Daren Ivan; Ward, Adrienne, 1957-; Nicassio, Susan Vandiver
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781495503009
Subjects: Libretto; Opera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Forsaking all 'others' : marriage and the birth of comedy in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee / by Marcie Ray; title: Rousseau and the operatic sentimental / by Pamela Gay-White; title: The Pasha does not sing : enlightenment themes and their musical treatment in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / by Laurel Zeiss; title: Beaumarchais' Tarare : courtly art and radical enlightenment / by Daren Hodson; title: Matrimonio segreto : marriage options in Venetian comic opera / by Adrienne Ward; title: La Tosca or the perfect anti-18th century libretto / by Susan Vandiver Nicassio.