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OverviewSince the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of early modern composers to arrive at styles that were intensely dramatic. Drawing on a series of case studies, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi traces the productive, if at times rivalrous, relationship between opera and tragedy from the institution of French regular tragedy under Richelieu in the 1630s to the reform of opera championed by Calzabigi and Gluck in the late eighteenth century. Blair Hoxby and his fellow contributors shed light on 'neighbouring forms' of theatre, including pastoral drama, tragedie en machines, tragedie en musique, and Goldoni's dramma giocoso. Their analysis includes famous masterpieces by Corneille, Voltaire, Metastasio, Goldoni, Calzabigi, Handel, and Gluck, as well as lesser-known artists such as Luisa Bergalli, the first female librettist to write for the public theatre in Italy. Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi delves into a series of quarrels and debates in order to illuminate the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theatre. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Blair HoxbyPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.640kg ISBN: 9781487503512ISBN 10: 1487503512 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 23 February 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Blair Hoxby 1. Machine Plays in France: Between Italian Opera and French Tragedy in Music Hélène Visentin 2. Opera, Tragedy, and Tragédie en Musique between Lully and Rameau Blair Hoxby 3. Tragedy in Flux Downing A. Thomas 4. Temptations of Love: Negotiating Tragic and Pastoral Inheritances at the Crossroads of Opera’s Early Modern History Stefanie Tcharos 5. Claiming Women’s Moral Agency: Luisa Bergalli as Poet Librettist Francesca Savoia 6. Metastasio’s Theatre and Early Modern Political Philosophy: Tyrannicide, Clemency, Natural Law Enrico Zucchi 7. Game of Thrones in the Russian Empire: Metastasio Revisited for St Petersburg Tatiana Korneeva 8. Recognition Scenes: Handel’s Oreste, Audience Reception, and Competition at the London Opera Robert C. Ketterer 9. Terror and Intoxication: Calzabigi’s Ipermestra o Le Danaidi (1778–1784) Magnus Tessing Schneider 10. From Serio to Sentimental: The Legacy of Tragic Opera in Carlo Goldoni’s Drammi Giocosi per Musica Pervinca Rista Bibliography Contributor List IndexReviews"""Assembling an international host of distinguished experts and introduced with a masterful overview by Blair Hoxby, Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi lures the reader with a stunningly wide panorama embracing the complex interrelations between performance practices and aesthetic ideals in the transnational caldron of baroque, neoclassical, and Enlightenment theatre. It will prove required reading for all those interested in early modern European cultural history and the dialogue of the arts."" - Larry F. Norman, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago ""Blair Hoxby has given us a wonderful panorama of the myriad dramatic and lyric forms that make up the universe of tragedy in European early modernity. The substantial introduction gives a wide-ranging historical and theoretical overview of regular tragedy, tragédie lyrique, pastoral, opera, ballet, machine plays, and other forms frequently neglected in courses and surveys of drama. The ten focused chapters that follow, written by recognized experts, illuminate specific cases, thematics, and genres. This is one of the most important books on early drama in several decades."" - John D. Lyons, Commonwealth Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia" Author InformationBlair Hoxby is a professor of English at Stanford University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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