Opera

away from “bawdiness and emotional wallowing” toward a “well balanced edifice, a play reasonable in its architecture”—that is, A ...

Strohm, Reinhard. “Italienische Opernarien des frühen Settecento (1720– 1730).” Analecta musicologica 16, part 1: 1–268; part 2 ...

useful study, along with its principal composers, singers, and troupes. The libretti are taken up, as well as elements of the co ...

how 18th-century plot devices were rejected in this period and how new ideas—tragic endings, intense personal conflicts, the lov ...

Maehder, Jürgen. “The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, andFrancesca da Rimin ...

Stenzl, Jürg. Von Giacomo Puccini zu Luigi Nono: Italienische Musik 1922– 1952: Faschismus, Resistenz, Republik. Buren (Netherl ...

Bignami, Luigi. Cronologia di tutti gli spettacoli rappresentati nel Gran Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Bologna: Agenzia Commerci ...

A documented history with seasonal chronologies, giving casts; photos of per- sons and advertising posters. Bibliography, compre ...

Holmes, William C. Opera Observed: Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century.Chicago: U. of Chicago Pres ...

A narrative of music history, drawing on all archival documents and illustrat- ing them. Index of names and libraries. Lucca Bi ...

Scaglione, Nitto. La vita artistica del Teatro Vittorio Emanuele.Messina: La Sicilia, 1921. Not seen. Kaufmandescribes it as an ...

Not seen. The theater was a poor rival to La Scala but did have premieres of La sonnambulaand Anna Bolena. Paglicci Brozzi, Ant ...

Wolff, Hellmuth Christian. “The Fairy Tale of the Neapolitan Opera.” In Studies in Eighteenth-Century Music(#73), 401–406. Supp ...

2535.La musica a Napoli durante il seicento. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi. Ed. Domenico Antonio D’Alessandro and Ag ...

Naples: Teatro San Carlo Teatro di San Carlo opened in 1737, burned in 1816, and was rebuilt in six months. Damaged but not dest ...

Naples: Teatro Nuovo Filippis, Felice de, and M. Mangini. Il Teatro Nuovo di Napoli.Naples: Beri- sio, 1967. 193p. ML1733.8 .N3 ...

2555.Il Teatro Massimo: Cento e più anni fa. Fonti storico-documentarie.Ed. Eliana Calandra. Palermo: Archivio Storico Comunale, ...

Pisa Dell’Ira, Gino. I teatri di Pisa (1773–1986).Pisa: Giardini, 1987. 400p. and about 100 unnumbered pages of pictures. No IS ...

Rome (Roma) Operatic life in Rome displays an unsteady past. There were performances as early as 1606, and the first comic opera ...

Rinaldi, Mario. Due secoli di musica al Teatro Argentina. Florence: Olschki, 3v. ML1833.8 .R76 R57. A documented narrative hist ...