Monteverdi's Last Operas: a Venetian Trilogy

Name: Monteverdi's Last Operas: a Venetian Trilogy
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ISBN: 9780520249349

ISBN-10: 0520249348

ISBN-13: 9780520249349

Edition: 2008

Authors: Ellen Rosand

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first important composer of opera. This innovative study by one of the foremost experts on Monteverdi and seventeenth-century opera examines the composer's celebrated final works--Il ritorno d'Ulisse(1640) andL'incoronazione di Poppea(1642)--from a new perspective. Ellen Rosand considers these works not merely as a pair but as constituents of a trio, a Venetian trilogy that, Rosand argues, properly includes a third opera,Le nozze d'Enea(1641). Although its music has not survived, its chronological placement between the other two opens new prospects for better understanding all three, both in their specifically Venetian context and as the creations of…

Book details

List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/3/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Ellen Rosandis George A. Saden Professor of Music at Yale and author ofMonteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


List of Musical Examples


Preface


Editorial Procedure


Abbreviations



Orpheus in Venice Prologue A New Ulysses The Myth of Venice



Discoveries and Reception Scholarship Performance



Sources and Authenticity: Three Librettos Il ritorno d'Ulisse Le nozze d'Enea L'incoronazione di Poppea



Two Scores Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria L'incoronazione di Poppea



Ancients and Moderns A Question of Genre Five Acts or Three Modern Taste



A Master of Three Servants Monteverdi's Way with Words Speech and Song, Recitative and Aria The Role of Meter Fashioning the "Just Lament": Arianna's Venetian Progeny Comedy



Constructions of Character Shaping an Epic or Rewriting Penelope The Wily Hero Deepening a Psychological Drama



The Parasite and the Philosopher Heroic Pedant, Ambiguous Philosopher Tragic Buffoon Directors and Critics Music and Text Post Mortem



Epilogue


Appendices



Giacomo Badoaro, Il ritorno d'Ulisse, preface



Argomento et Scenario delle Nozze d'Enea in Lavinia



Giacomo Badoaro, Ulisse errante, preface



L'incoronazione di Poppea: argomento, scenario, preface



Il ritorno d'Ulisse: Badoaro's argomento compared with Dolce's Allegorie and Dolce's argomenti compared with Badoaro's structure



Le nozze d'Enea e Lavinia: scenario compared with Dolce's allegories



Supernatural scenes



Singers


Bibliography


Index