(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Bruno Forment.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Forment, Bruno.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Classical, in opera.

Opera--France--17th century.

Opera.

Opera--France--18th century.

Opera--Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Disembodying myths in Ancien Régime opera

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the Ancien Regime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigenie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragedie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Contents:

Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico

Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-6166-057-X

OCLC:

793379061