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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790248303321

Titolo

(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera [[electronic resource] ] : multidisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Bruno Forment

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven, : Leuven University Press, 2012

ISBN

94-6166-057-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FormentBruno

Disciplina

782.10944

Soggetti

Mythology, Classical, in opera

Opera - France - 17th century

Opera - France - 18th century

Opera - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the Ancien Regime, 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 'Iphigenie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragedie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.