Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte /
In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbour...
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Chicago :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The tragedies and comedies recited by the Zanni
- The commedia dell'arte as theater
- "Ma meglio di tutti Arianna comediante"
- The serious elements of early comic opera
- Penelope and Poppea as stock figures of the commedia dell'arte
- Conclusion. Seventeenth-century opera and the sound of the commedia dell'arte.
