Disembodying Myths in Ancien Regime Opera
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Editor: Forment, Bruno
Book
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Contents
- Music examples and illustrations
- Preface
- 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 ménage à trois in myth, drama, and opera
- Reinhard Strohm
- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's
- Iphigénie en Tauride
- Bram van Oostveldt
- Bibliography
- Contributors' biographies
- Index