The Beggar's opera : [materials /

Subjects: “…Gay, John, 1685-1732. Beggar's opera.…”

Ballad opera. by Gagey, Edmond McAdoo, 1901-

Subjects: “…Ballad opera.…”

Opera & Vivaldi /

Subjects: “…Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741. Operas.…”

Opera observed : views of a Florentine impresario in the early eighteenth century / by Holmes, William, 1928-

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Opera and the Enlightenment /

Subjects: “…Opera Europe 18th century.…”

Opera and sovereignty : transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy / by Feldman, Martha

Table of Contents: “…Evenings at the opera. Opera seria, sovereignty, performance ; Ritual and event ; Magic and myth ; Public opinion ; Evolutions ; Crisis and involution -- Arias : form, feeling, exchange. …”

Mozart's operas : a companion / by Hunter, Mary Kathleen, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The musical anatomy of Mozart's operas -- Mozart and opera seria. Mitridate, re di Ponto ; Ascanio in Alba ; Il sogno di Scipione ; Lucio Silla ; Il re pastore ; Idomeneo ; La clemenza di Tito -- Mozart and Singspiel. …”

Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / by Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…A prologue on genre -- Pamela goes to the opera -- The emergence of bourgeois drama -- The codification of bourgeois drama -- Opera as drame -- Sensibility and the moral cure -- A sentimental opera -- Sentimental, anti-sentimental -- Avenues.…”

Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / by Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…A prologue on genre -- Pamela goes to the opera -- The emergence of bourgeois drama -- The codification of bourgeois drama -- Opera as drame -- Sensibility and the moral cure -- A sentimental opera -- Sentimental, anti-sentimental -- Avenues.…”
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Opera and the city : the politics of culture in Beijing, 1770-1900 / by Goldman, Andrea S.

Table of Contents: “…Opera aficionados and guides to boy-actresses -- Metropolitan opera, border crossings, and the state -- Musical genre, opera hierarchy, and court patronage -- Social melodrama and the sexing of political complaint -- Sex versus violence in "I, sister-in-law" operas…”
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Sentimental opera : questions of genre in the age of bourgeois drama / by Castelvecchi, Stefano, 1960-

Table 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 / by Dill, Charles William

Table of Contents: “…Monstrous opera -- Different tragedies -- Rameau's twins -- Rameau mise-en-scene -- In the mirror.…”
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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 / by Wolff, Larry

Table 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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The singing Turk : Ottoman power and operatic emotions on the European stage from the siege of Vienna to the age of Napoleon / by Wolff, Larry

Table 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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(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Ketterer -- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess -- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment -- Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm -- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt.…”
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Ombra : Supernatural Music in the Eighteenth Century. by McClelland, Clive

Table 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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Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

Subjects: “…Opera France 18th century.…”
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Coquettes, wives, and widows : gender politics in French baroque opera and theater / by Ray, Marcie

Subjects: “…Opera France 18th century.…”
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At the origins of classical opera : Carlo Goldoni and the "dramma giocoso per musica" / by Rista, Pervinca

Table 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 and the politics of tragedy : a Mozartean museum / by Clausius, Katharina

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