(Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Forment, Bruno
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leuven : Leuven UP, 2012.
Subjects:
1600-1799
Opera > France > 17th century.
Opera > France > 18th century.
Opera > Italy.
Mythology, Classical, in opera.
Opéra > France > 17e siècle.
Opéra > France > 18e siècle.
Opéra > Italie.
Mythologie ancienne à l'opéra.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > General.
Opera.
France.
Italy.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789461660572
946166057X

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