Introduction: Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms in an Age of Quarrels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms in an Age of Quarrels 1
6. 1 Machine Plays in France: Between Italian Opera and French Tragedy in Music 31
7. 2 Opera, Tragedy, and Tragédie en Musique between Lully and Rameau 59
8. 3 Tragedy in Flux 92
9. 4 Temptations of Love: Negotiating Tragic and Pastoral Inheritances at the Crossroads of Opera’s Early Modern History 111
10. 5 Claiming Women’s Moral Agency: Luisa Bergalli as Poet Librettist 135
11. 6 Metastasio’s Theatre and Early Modern Political Philosophy: Tyrannicide, Clemency, Natural Law 161
12. 7 Game of Thrones in the Russian Empire: Metastasio Revisited for St Petersburg 182
13. 8 Recognition Scenes: Handel’s Oreste, Audience Reception, and Competition at the London Opera 202
14. 9 Terror and Intoxication: Calzabigi’s Ipermestra o Le Danaidi (1778–1784) 227
15. 10 From Serio to Sentimental: The Legacy of Tragic Opera in Carlo Goldoni’s Drammi Giocosi per Musica 254
16. Bibliography 283
17. Contributors 315
18. Index 319