Readying Cavalli's Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production
- Editor: Rosand, Ellen
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction, Ellen Rosand
- Part I Historiography of Performances and Editions: Cavalli's operas: notes from a performing editor, Jane Glover
- Editing Cavalli's operas: fashion or necessity, Alvaro Torrente
- After the premiere: the use of alternative sources in revivals of Cavalli's operas, Dinko Fabris . Part II The Manuscript Scores: Inside Cavalli's workshop: copies and copyists, Jennifer Williams Brown
- Maria Cavalli: in the shadow of Francesco, Christine Jeanneret
- Editing the performance score: toward a new understanding of 17 th-century work concepts, Hendrik Schulze . Part III Giasone, Production and Interpretation: Behind the scenes of Cavalli's Giasone of 1649, Beth L. Glixon
- Spectacle and drama, or, how many sets do we really need to perform 17th-century opera?, Jonathan Glixon
- Hysipyle, Medea, and the Ovidian imagination: taming the epic hero on Cavalli's Giasone, Wendy Heller
- Shakespeare and the Golden Fleece, Lawrence Manley . Part IV Making Librettos: Plotting the myth of Giasone, Fausta Antonucci and Lorenzo Bianconi
- Cicognini's Giasone: between music and theater, Anna Tedesco
- 'Ecco reciso alfine il groppo de l'inganno': Giovanni Faustini's Euripo from the sources to the plot, Nicola Badolato . Part V Cavalli Beyond Venice: Giasone: a source overview, Thomas Lin and Joseph Salem
- Balbi's Febiarmonici and the first 'road shows' of Giasone (1649-1653), Nicola Michelassi
- Orione in Milan: a Cavalli premiere, Davide Daolmi
- 'Ercole amante sconosciuto': reconstructing the revised version of Cavalli's Parisian opera, Michael Klaper
- Ercole amante, the first tragedie en musique?, Barbara Nestola
- Select bibliography
- Index.