Claudio Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas: Sources, Performance, Interpretation

Contents

• PART I: Context and Sources
• 1. Mario Infelise. Libertinism and Politics: Notes for an Incognito Reading of L’Incoronazione di Poppea
• 2. Jean-Francois Lattarico. L’incoronazione di Poppea within the Context of Le ore ociose (1656).
• 3. Merita Martino. Busenello and Monteverd: Toward les liasons des scenes
• 4. Hendrik Schulze. Editing Poppea: Source Provenance, Performance Practice, and Authorship
• 5. Stefano LaVia Monteverdi the Aristotelian Dramatist. The "Cheerful Reversal" of il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria.
• 6. Nicola Usula Notes on the manuscript of il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria in the Music Collection of Leopoldo I in Vienna. 9 IMAGES
• PART II: Performance and Interpretation
• 7. Wendy Heller "Una lingua sciolta": Listening to the Voice of Anna Renzi
• 8. Guillaume Bernardi. Reciting Monteverdi. Sources, Practices, and Hurdles.
• 9. Magnus Schneider. Heavenly Masquerades. On Doubling in Il ritorno d’Ulisse.
• 10. Anna Tedesco. Monteverdi in the Garden. Poppea in Fascist Florence.
• 11. Mauro Calcagno. Otho’s Perspective, Seneca‘s Lesson: On Recent Stagings of L’incoronazione di Poppea.
• 12. Jane Glover. Conducting Monteverdi’s Venetian Operas.