Inventing the Opera House

Contents

• 1. Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519;
• 2. Rome 1480s-1520;
• 3. Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto;
• 4. Sixteenth-century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena;
• 5. Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte;
• 6. Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio;
• 7. Drama-Tourney theaters;
• 8. Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti;
• 9. Seventeenth-century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house;
• 10. Seventeenth-century theaters for comedy and opera;
• 11. Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.