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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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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 | |