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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera

  • Editor: DelDonna, Anthony
  • Editor: Polzonetti, Pierpaolo
This Companion has succeeded in its aim to address a wide range of skills and interests. The style is always accessible ... It cannot fail to leave its readers enlightened

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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.