Ancient Drama in Music for the Modern Stage

Contents

• 1 Roger Savage: Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: the Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera
• 2 Michele Napolitano: Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manque
• 3 Jason Geary: Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism
• 4 Wendy Heller: Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera
• 5 Jennifer Thorp: Dance in Lully's Alceste
• 6 Amy Wygant: The Ghost of Alcestis
• 7 Suzana Ograjensek: The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s
• 8 Robert C. Ketterer: Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene
• 9 Reinhard Strohm: Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729)
• 10 Michael Burden: Establishing a text, securing a reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle
• 11 Bruno Forment: The Gods out of the Machine . . . and their Comeback
• 12 Simon Goldhill: Who Killed Gluck?
• 13 Simone Beta: The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata
• 14 Michael Ewans & Anastasia Belina: Taneyev's Oresteia
• 15 Christian Wolff: Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy
• 16 Stephen Walsh: The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus
• 17 Robert Cowan: Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae
• 18 Nicholas Attfield: Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann
• 19 David Beard: 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir