The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera

Contents

• Chronology of relevant events in eighteenth-century opera;
• Part I . The Making of Opera:
• 1. Opera as process Pierpaolo Polzonetti;
• 2. Aria as drama James Webster;
• 3. Ensembles and finales Caryl Clark;
• 4. Metastasio: the dramaturgy of eighteenth-century heroic opera Francesco Cotticelli and Paologiovanni Maione;
• 5. Roles and acting Gianni Cicali;
• 6. Ballet Rebecca Harris-Warrick;
• 7. Orchestra and voice in eighteenth-century Italian opera John Spitzer;
• 8. To look again (at Don Giovanni) Alessandra Campana;
• Part II . National Styles and Genres:
• 9. Genre and form in French opera David Charlton;
• 10. Genre and form in German opera Estelle Joubert;
• 11. Opera in eighteenth-century England: English opera, masques, ballad operas Michael Burden;
• 12. Opera in Naples Anthony R. DelDonna;
• 13. Portugal and Brazil Manuel Carlos de Brito;
• 14. Opera, genre, and context in Spain and its American colonies Louise Stein and Jose Maximo Leza.