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Pages: 712
Pages: 712
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
"In this elegantly constructed study of the early decades of public opera, the conflicts and cooperation of poets, composers, managers, designers, and singers�
Language: en
Pages: 508
Pages: 508
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-03 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-cen
Language: en
Pages: 407
Pages: 407
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-12 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Opera developed during a time when the position of women—their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexual
Language: en
Pages: 514
Pages: 514
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge
The past four decades have seen an explosion in research regarding seventeenth-century opera. In addition to investigations of extant scores and librettos, scho
Language: en
Pages: 425
Pages: 425
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Inventing the Business of Opera explores public opera in its infancy, bringing to life the men and women who successfully established the new genre on the stage