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Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…TableauxDiderotians; Mixed, median, monstrous; 4 Opera as drame; Mercier the dramaturge; On 'drame' and the use of words; Two déserteurs, or virtue rewarded and virtue chastised; Three Venetian disertori; 5 Sensibility and the moral cure; Sentiment and sensibility; In the labyrinth of the 'folles par amour'; Moral cure and absorption; A salon, a lodge, a circle; 6 A sentimental opera; An epoch-making experiment; A Utopian fantasy; Sentimental settings; To listen for the sentiment; 7 Sentimental, anti-sentimental; A perpetual interplay; Figaro's family; Society and its discontents; Dissonances.…”
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Monstrous opera : Rameau and the tragic tradition /
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…Monstrous opera -- Different tragedies -- Rameau's twins -- Rameau mise-en-scene -- In the mirror.…”
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Performing operas for Mozart : impresarios, singers and troupes /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Pasquale Bondini -- Die Entführung aus dem Serail -- The Italian troupe in Prague -- The Prague Figaro -- The genesis of Don Giovanni -- The première of Don Giovanni -- The casting of Don Giovanni -- The Leipzig Don Giovanni -- The 1788 Prague Don Giovanni -- Mozart's music in Leipzig -- Josepha Duschek's academy (22 April 1788) -- Mozart's academy (12 May 1789) -- Guardasoni in Warsaw -- The première of La clemenza di Tito -- The Leipzig reception of the Da Ponte operas (1792-1794) -- Guardasoni diversifies.…”
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At the origins of classical opera : Carlo Goldoni and the "dramma giocoso per musica" /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…The other Goldoni -- The foundations of musical comedy -- New directions -- A new source for classical opera: Goldoni's drammi giocosi -- How comedy changed opera -- Goldoni's musical legacy.…”
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Opera in the age of Rousseau : music, confrontation, realism /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Opera as a subject of debate ; The querelle : 'two ridiculous theses' ; Visions of reform -- Italian opera for Paris. …”
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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera /
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…From Venice to Vienna -- Opera in Vienna, 1766-76 : theaters, management, personnel -- Goldonian opera buffa in Vienna before Salieri -- Constructing Le donne letterate -- Youthful exploration and experiment -- Three Goldonian comedies -- Joseph II and the end of the impresarial decade -- Italy, 1778-80 -- Joseph's Singspiel troupe and Der Rauchfangkehrer -- Les Danaïdes -- Joseph's Italian troupe and the renewal of Viennese opera buffa -- Between Paris and Vienna : Tarare and Axur re d'Ormus -- Da Ponte, Ferrarese and Hofkapellmeister Salieri -- Mozart and Salieri -- Leopold II, Tomeoni and the triumph of Neapolitan opera buffa -- Withdrawal and reemergence, 1792-96 -- Salieri's last operas and the end of Viennese Italian opera -- Appendix : A chronological list of Salieri's operas.…”
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Die Opera buffa in Europa : Verbreitungs- und Transformationsprozesse einer neuen Gattung (1740-1765) /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…2 Die europäische Verbreitung der Opera buffa im Überblick --…”
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The politics of opera in Handel's Britain /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Opera and political allegory : When is it an allegory? …”
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The Italian opera singers in Mozart's Vienna /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…The Establishment and Management of the Italian Opera Company at the Vienna Court Theater -- Classification of Operatic Roles, Voice Types, and Singing Styles -- Casting Information in Scores and Librettos of the Operas Produced in the Italian Company, 1783-91 -- Nancy Storace : The Italian Company, 1783-84 -- Nancy Storace : The Company Stabilizes, 1784-85 -- Nancy Storace's Annus Horribilis and Celeste Coltellini, 1785-86 -- Nancy Storace's Exuberant Year, 1786-87 -- Anna Morichelli Comes and Goes, 1787-88 -- Luisa Laschi : The Year of the Three Prima Donnas, 1788-89 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Opera on a Shoestring, 1789-90 -- Adriana Ferrarese : Portents of Change, 1790-91 -- A Neapolitan Prima Donna and the End of Josephine Opera, 1791-92.…”
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Opera in the development of German critical thought /
Published 1978Subjects: “…Opera Germany 18th century.…”
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The culture of opera buffa in Mozart's Vienna : a poetics of entertainment /
Published 1999Table of Contents: “…Opera Buffa as Entertainment.…”
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Opera and drama in eighteenth-century London : the King's Theatre, Garrick and the business of performance /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777). Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777-1778).…”
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The Culture of Opera Buffa in Mozart's Vienna : a Poetics of Entertainment.
Published 2001Subjects: “…Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791. Operas.…”
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John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, 1728-2004 : adaptations and re-writings /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…late eighteenth-century ballad opera and John Wilkes : The bow-street opera (1773) /…”
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Sosarme, re di Media : opera in tre atti, HWV 30 /
Published 2016Subjects: “…Operas Librettos.…”
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Tommaso Traetta and the fusion of Italian and French opera in Parma /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Ippolito ed Aricia -- I Tindaridi -- Le feste d'Imeneo -- Enea e Lavinia -- Recitative -- Arias -- Other genres -- Aspects of Traetta's musical style -- Traetta's reform operas after Parma : Sofonisba, Ifigenia in Tauride, Antigona -- Epilogue.…”
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E. T. A. Hoffmann, cosmopolitanism, and the struggle for German opera /
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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction : operatic representation and the Triplex Confinium -- The captive sultan : operatic transfigurations of the Ottoman menace after the siege of Vienna -- The generous Turk : captive Christians and operatic comedy in Paris -- The triumphant sultana : Suleiman and his operatic harem -- The Turkish subjects of Gluck and Haydn : comic opera in war and peace -- Osmin in Vienna : Mozart's Abduction and the centennial of the Ottoman siege -- "To honor the emperor" : Pasha Selim and Emperor Joseph in the age of enlightened absolutism -- The Ottoman adventures of Rossini and Napoleon : Kaimacacchi and Missipipi at La Scala -- Pappataci and Kaimakan : reflections in a Mediterranean mirror -- An Ottoman prince in the romantic imagination : the libertine adventures of Rossini's Turkish traveler -- Maometto in Naples and Venice : the operatic charisma of the conqueror -- Rossini's Siege of Paris : Ottoman subjects in the French restoration -- The decline and disappearance of the singing Turk : Ottoman reform, the Eastern question, and the European operatic repertory.…”
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Ombra : Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Ombra; Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Ombra Music in Context; Chapter 2 Tonality (Opera); Chapter 3 Harmony and Line (Opera); Chapter 4 Tempo and Rhythm (Opera); Chapter 5 Texture, Dynamics and Instrumentation (Opera); Chapter 6 Case Studies in Opera; Chapter 7 Ombra in Sacred Music; Chapter 8 Ombra in Instrumental Music; Chapter 9 Ombra after Mozart; Appendix A; Appendix B; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.…”
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