Operas based on Greek drama - primarily tragedy - have been, and are, among the most important in the repertoire, and this collection of essays by leading authorities in a variety of disciplines provides an exceptionally wide-rangingand detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres. INDICE: 1: Roger Savage: Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: the Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera; 2: Michele Napolitano: Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manqué; 3: Jason Geary: Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism; 4: Wendy Heller: Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera; 5: Jennifer Thorp: Dance in Lully's Alceste; 6: Amy Wygant: The Ghost of Alcestis; 7: Suzana Ograjensek: The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s; 8: Robert C. Ketterer: Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene; 9: Reinhard Strohm: Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Début of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729); 10: Michael Burden: Establishing a text, securing a reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle; 11: Bruno Forment: The Gods out of the Machine.. and their Comeback; 12: Simon Goldhill: Who Killed Gluck?; 13: Simone Beta: The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata; 14: Michael Ewans & Anastasia Belina: Taneyev's Oresteia; 15: Christian Wolff: Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy; 16: Stephen Walsh: The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus; 17: Robert Cowan: SingEvohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae; 18: Nicholas Attfield: Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann; 19: David Beard: 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955855-1
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 02/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés