muth Christian Wolff, “Manierismus in den venezianischen Opernlibretti des- Jahrhunderts”; Ferruccio Marotti, “Lo spazio scenico del melodramma,
esaminato sulla base della trattatistica teatrale italiana”; and these entered sep-
arately: Bruno Brizi on Busenello (#236), Ellen Rosand on Cavalli’s arias
(#672), William C. Holmes on Orontea(#683), Lionello Cammarota on Mon-
teverdi’s orchestration (#1249), and Giovanni Morelli and Thomas R. Walker
on San Cassiano (#2584). - Muraro, Maria Teresa, ed. Venezia e il melodramma nel settecento.Florence:
Olschki, 1978, 1981. 2v. ISBN v.2 88-2223-057-3. ML1733.8 .V4 V46.
V.1 consists of 23 papers, including Mercedes Viale Ferrero, “Giovanni Battisti
Crosato e la sua attività di scenografo al Teatro Regio di Torino”; Marian
Hanna Winter, “Venice: Proving Ground and Arbiter for Italian Choreogra-
phers”; Francesco Degrada, “Origini e sviluppi dell’opera comica napole-
tana”; Nicola Mangini, “Sulla diffusione dell’opera comica nei teatri
veneziani”; Nicola Mangini, “Sui rapporti del Vivaldi col Teatro di Sant’An-
gelo”; Hellmuth Christian Wolff, “Johann Adolf Hasse und Venedig”; Klaus
Hortschansky, “Die Rezeption der Wiener Dramen Metastasios in Italien”;
and Carolyn Gianturco, “Il trespolo tutoredi Stradella e di Pasquini.” Entered
separately: Daniel Heartz on Hasse, Galuppi, and Metastasio (#1007) and
Claudio Gallico on Rinaldo di Capua (#1567).
V.2 has 15 papers, including Stefan Kunze, “Elementi veneziani nella libret-
tistica di Lorenzo Da Ponte”; and these entered separately: Daniela Goldin on
opera buffa(#243), Daniel Heartz on L’Arcadia in Brenta(#250), Michael F.
Robinson on Goldoni (#252), Sven H. Hansell on Bertoni (#572), Hellmuth
Christian Wolff on La sposa fedele(#937), Daniela Goldin on the text of Il
barbiere di Siviglia(#1376) and Gianfranco Folena on La serva padrona
(#1396). - Rosand, Ellen. Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a
Genre.Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1991. 684p. ISBN 0-520-06808-4.
ML1733.8 .V4 R67.
The indispensable study of the period, based on primary sources that are pre-
sented in appendixes. Examines the Venetian environment in which opera
took on the identity it still holds, departing from austere Florentine begin-
nings. Commercialization of opera is traced, as well as the impact of the pub-
lic. Many works are discussed, with 91 long musical examples, but actual
musical analysis is light. Copious notes, strong bibliography, indexing by title
and topic. - Worsthorne, Simon Towneley. Venetian Opera in the Seventeenth Century.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1954. vii, 194p. ML1733.8 .V4 W77.
A scholarly account, with a good review of earlier research. Discusses the place
of opera in the thought of the times, the theaters of Venice, and musical life in
general. Casts for operas before 1700 but no actual chronology. Stage scenes
are shown in 23 plates. Bibliography of about 150 entries, index.
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