Essays on Handel and Italian opera
By: Reinhard Strohm.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759; Opera -- Italy -- 18th century; Opera -- England -- 18th century
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 271-290.
Table of contents: title: Heritage: Handel's Italian journey as a European experience ; Alessandro Scarlatti and the eighteenth century ; Handel and his Italian opera texts ; Francesco Gasparini's later operas and Handel; title: Operatic practice: Towards an understanding of the opera seria ; An opera autograph of Francesco Gasparini? ; Vivaldi's career as an opera producer ; Handel's pasticci; title: Answers to the past: Leonardo Vinci's Didone abbandonata (Rome 1726) ; Handel's Ezio ; Metastasio's Alessandro nell'Indie and its earliest settings ; Comic traditions in Handel's Orlando.