(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives / edited by Bruno Forment.
Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes w...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico
- Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. Ketterer
- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess
- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment
- Iphigenia's curious Menange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm
- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt.