The Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera

Contents

• Preface and acknowledgments; List of abbreviations;
• Part I . The Italian Foundations:
• 1. Opera is born: the wedding of music and drama in late Renaissance Florence Barbara Russano-Hanning;
• 2. '...e poi le parole': towards a history of the libretto Tim Carter;
• 3. Opera as spectacle, opera as drama Margaret Murata;
• Part II . Society, Institutions and Production:
• 4. Opera for a paying public (Italy c. 1637-c. 1700) Beth L. Glixon;
• 5. 'Una bella voce, un bel trillo, d un bel passaggio': opera singers in seventeenth-century Italy Colleen Reardon;
• 6. Opera, gender and voice Christine Jeanneret;
• 7. Dance and ballet Rebecca Harris-Warrick;
• 8. Staging opera in the seventeenth century Roger Savage;
• Part III . National Traditions (Outside Italy):
• 9. Opera in France c. 1640-c. 1710 Laura Naudeix;
• 10. Song and declamation in French opera Jacqueline Weber;
• 11. Opera in England Amanda Eubanks Winkler;
• 12. The development of opera in German Michael Maul;
• 13. Opera in Spain and the Spanish dominions in Italy and the Americas Louise K. Stein; Bibliography; Index.