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

Author:   Ellen Rosand ,  Stefano La Via ,  University of Massachusetts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   286
Publication Date:   29 January 2024
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Author:   Ellen Rosand ,  Stefano La Via ,  University of Massachusetts
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032291925


ISBN 10:   1032291923
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   29 January 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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."

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Ellen Rosand, George A. Saden Professor of Music Emerita at Yale (1992-2014), is the author of Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (1991), and Monteverdi’s Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy (2007). She also edited Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage (2013), is General Editor of Cavalli Opere, a critical edition of the operas of Francesco Cavalli, and founded the Yale Baroque Opera Project, an undergraduate opera company, in 2006, with the support of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Stefano La Via is Professor of ""Storia della Poesia per musica"" and ""Storia della Canzone d’autore"" at the University of Pavia, Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage (Cremona). Educated at the Universities of Rome and Princeton, he has published essays on the relationship between poetry and music in various historical periods, with particular reference to 16th-century Madrigal, 17th-/18th-century Opera, Auteur Song in Europe and the Americas.

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