Das Opernhafte : Eine Studie zum "gusto melodrammatico" in Italien und Europa / by Amodeo, Immacolata

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

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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. …”

Opera in theory and practice, image and myth /

Table of Contents: “…Poetics and polemics / Renato Di Benedetto -- The dramaturgy of Italian opera / Carl Dalhaus -- Metrical and formal organization / Paolo Fabbri -- Opera and Italian literature / Marzio Pieri -- The dissemination and popularization of opera / Roberto Leydi -- Opera in Italian national culture / Giovanni Morelli.…”

(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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Italian opera in global and transnational perspective : reimagining italianità in the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Opera and italianità in Transnational and Global Perspective : An Introduction / Axel Körner and Paulo Kühl -- Giving Singers a Voice : The Italian Opera Company and the Press in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1831 / Fernando Santos Berçot -- Nina d'Aubigny's "Italian Voice" : A Musical Projection Screen in German National Discourse / Carolin Krahn -- Italian Opera and Creole Identities : Manuel García in Independent Mexico (1826 - 1829) / Francesco Milella -- Italian Opera in Vormärz Vienna : Gaetano Donizetti, Bartolomeo Merelli, and Habsburg Cultural Policies in the mid-1830s / Claudio Vellutini -- Southern Exchanges : Italian Opera in New Orleans, 1836-42 / Charlotte Bentley -- 'For a moment, I felt like I was back in Italy' : Early South American Experiences of Italian Opera Singers (1840 - 1860) / José Manuel Izquierdo König -- Reimagining Rossini : Obituaries as Transnational Narratives of Italian Opera / Arnold Jacobshagen -- From Heaven and Hell to the Grail Hall via Sant'Andrea della Valle : Religious Identity and the Internationalisation of Operatic Styles in Liberal Italy / Andrew Holden -- Arcadia Undone : Teresa Carreño's 1887 Italian opera company in Caracas / Ditlev Rindom -- Italian Impresarios, American Minstrels and Parsi Theatre : Sonic Networks and the Negotiation of Opera in Colonial South and Southeast Asia / Rashna Darius Nicholson -- German National Identity and Operatic italianità : Franchetti's and Leoncavallo's Operas on German Myths / Richard Erkens -- (Opera) Fever in Belle Époque Manaus : italianità at the Teatro Amazonas, 1897-1907 / Rosie McMahon -- Between 'Sung Theatre' and Asakusa Opera. …”
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Opera and society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu /

Table of Contents: “…Venice's mythic empires : truth and verisimilitude in Venetian opera / Wendy Heller -- Lully's on-stage societies / Rebecca Harris-Warrick -- Representations of "le peuple" in French opera, 1673-1764 / Catherine Kintzler -- Woman's roles in Meyerbeer's operas : how Italian heroines are reflected in French grand opera / Naomi André -- The effect of a bomb in the hall : the French "opera of ideas" and its cutural role in the 1920s / Jane F. …”
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The autumn of Italian opera from verismo to modernism, 1890-1915 / by Mallach, Alan

Subjects: “…Opera Italy 19th century.…”

Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy / by Rosand, Ellen

Subjects: “…Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Operas.…”
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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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Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / by Johnson, Eugene J., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519 -- Rome 1480's-1520 -- Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto -- Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena -- Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte -- Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio -- Drama-tourney theaters -- Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti -- Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house -- Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera -- Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.…”
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Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde / by Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, 1969-

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Naples and Neapolitan opera, by Robinson, Michael F.

Subjects: “…Opera Italy Naples 18th century.…”

The complete operas of Verdi / by Osborne, Charles, 1927-2017

Subjects: “…Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas.…”

Singers of Italian opera : the history of a profession / by Rosselli, John

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Opera and the culture of fascism / by Tambling, Jeremy

Subjects: “…Opera Europe 19th century.…”

Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice / by Glixon, Beth Lise, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The business of opera. Introduction to the business of opera in seventeenth-century Venice : people and finances ;…”

Opera's first master : the musical dramas of Claudio Monteverdi / by Ringer, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Living with Monteverdi's operas -- Monteverdi and the path to L'Orfeo : polyphony, madrigal, and Monteverdi's early years -- "Lend me a castrato" : opera comes to Mantua -- "So that memory of his glory may live" : L'Orfeo -- The first lost opera and other works for Mantua -- "Contraries to move the mind" : Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and the journey toward the Venetian operas -- "Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love" : Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- "Nothing human is alien to me" : L'incoronazione di Poppea.…”

Monteverdi's last operas : a Venetian trilogy / by Rosand, Ellen

Subjects: “…Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643. Operas.…”

Opera in postwar Venice : cultural politics and the avant-garde / by Boyd-Bennett, Harriet, 1969-

Subjects: “…Opera Italy Venice 20th century.…”
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