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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Stage and Set Mercedes | |
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| Theatrical Spaces and Designers | |
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| Space and the Set | |
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| Spaces and Opera Genres | |
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| Spaces and Their Appreciation | |
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| Spaces and Privilege | |
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| Spaces and Techniques | |
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| Designers and Their Audiences | |
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| Designers and Critics (Practice and Theory) | |
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| Designers and Practitioners | |
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| Originality and Convention | |
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| Iconographia Theatralis | |
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| The Birth of Opera | |
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| Single and Multiple Sets | |
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| The Great Dynasties of Opera Designers | |
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| The Staging of Three Exemplary Productions | |
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| Theatrical Architecture, Set Design, and Painting | |
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| Rome and Arcadia | |
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| Another Great Dynasty, the Bibienas: Sets and Theaters | |
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| Two Examples of Staging | |
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| Metastasiana | |
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| Travelers and Residents: Stage Designers and Theatrical Organizations | |
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| Three Productions and Their Sets | |
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| The New Theaters | |
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| Two Points to Bear in Mind | |
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| Revolution and Conservation | |
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| The Permanence of the Ephemeral | |
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| The Restoration: Innovation in Images and the Imaginary | |
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| Felice Romani's Production Books | |
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| Reflections on the Sets for Two Librettos | |
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| Developments in Milan and Elsewhere | |
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| Verdi and the Early Production Books | |
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| Giuseppe Bertoja, Set Designer for Verdi (and Others) | |
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| More on Verdi | |
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| The Turn of the Century | |
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| Staging Puccini | |
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| New Experiences | |
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| The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | |
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| Bibliographic Note | |
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| Directing Opera | |
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| Stage Direction in Italian Opera | |
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| From theCoragoand theMaestro di Scene: Possible Variations and Significant Developments in the Baroque Theater | |
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| Clients and Impresarios | |
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| Pierro Metastasio and the Profession of the Theatrical Poet | |
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| The Treatise Writers and the Principle of Authority | |
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| Designing and Directing Repertory Opera Productions | |
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| The Stage Manager Opera Direction in Italy | |
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| The Beginnings of Opera Direction in Italy | |
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| The Impact and Spread of Luchino Visconti's Work as an Opera Director | |
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| Zeffirelli, Strehler, and Ronconi: Three Different Approaches to Opera Direction | |
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| Operas and Direction Bibliographic Note | |
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| Theatrical Ballet and Italian Opera | |
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| Hansell Ballet during the Age of Venetian Opera, 1640-1720 | |
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| The Rise of Theatrical Dance: General Trends | |
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| Consolidation of Tendencies: Characteristic Features of Later Seventeenth-Century | |
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| Stage Dance Opera Seria, Dramma Giocoso, and the Challenge of Pantomime Ballet, 1720-1795 | |
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| A Question of Entr'actes: Ballets during the Period of VocalIntermezzi | |
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| 1740-1765: The Rise of Italian Pantomime Ballet | |
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| 1766-1776: A Decade of Debate and Questioning | |
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| The End of the Century: Italian Ballet | |
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| Preeminent Ballet and the Melodramma: Flower and Decline, 1796-1872 | |
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| Pantomime Ballet at Its Zenith, 1796-1821 | |
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| TheCoreodramma | |
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| 1822-1849: The Ballo d'Azione in Its Last Flowering: The Encounter with Romantic Ballet andGrand Opera | |
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| 1850-1872: The Ballet Subsumed in the Opera | |
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| Epilogue: Fin de Siecle | |
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| Bibliographic Note | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Operas and Ballets | |
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| Index of Theatrical Venues | |