The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart 0691175020, 9780691175027
A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics of Opera takes read
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Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Mixtures, Boundaries, Parallels
Acknowledgments
PART 1: METAMORPHOSES, ANCIENT TO MODERN
CHAPTER 1 Who Rules?
CHAPTER 2 Reigning Voices
Intermedio (I)
CHAPTER 3 Laws and Laurels
PART 2: MANTUA TO VENICE
CHAPTER 4 Orpheus’s Ways
Intermedio (II)
CHAPTER 5 A Prince Decides on Naxos
Intermedio (III)
CHAPTER 6 The Political Scenario of Monteverdi’s Venice
CHAPTER 7 Revealing Ulysses
Intermedio (IV)
CHAPTER 8 Spectacles
PART 3: UNDER FRENCH SUNS
CHAPTER 9 Agitations and Absolutes
CHAPTER 10 In the Winds: The Decades of Pernucio and Telemachus
Un court intermède
CHAPTER 11 Vertical, Horizontal
CHAPTER 12 Nature and Its Discontents
PART 4: ANCIENTS IN MODERNITY
CHAPTER 13 From Elysium to Utica
Zwischenspiel (I)
CHAPTER 14 From Crete to Rome
PART 5: “. . . AND ALTHOUGH I AM NO COUNT . . .”
CHAPTER 15 Masters and Servants
Zwischenspiel (II)
CHAPTER 16 Gaits of History
CHAPTER 17 Looking for Enlightenment
CHAPTER 18 Tamino’s Wonder
Sarastro’s Sabbatical: This Is Not a Finale
Appendix: “Backstage”
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Prologue: Mixtures, Boundaries, Parallels
Acknowledgments
PART 1: METAMORPHOSES, ANCIENT TO MODERN
CHAPTER 1 Who Rules?
CHAPTER 2 Reigning Voices
Intermedio (I)
CHAPTER 3 Laws and Laurels
PART 2: MANTUA TO VENICE
CHAPTER 4 Orpheus’s Ways
Intermedio (II)
CHAPTER 5 A Prince Decides on Naxos
Intermedio (III)
CHAPTER 6 The Political Scenario of Monteverdi’s Venice
CHAPTER 7 Revealing Ulysses
Intermedio (IV)
CHAPTER 8 Spectacles
PART 3: UNDER FRENCH SUNS
CHAPTER 9 Agitations and Absolutes
CHAPTER 10 In the Winds: The Decades of Pernucio and Telemachus
Un court intermède
CHAPTER 11 Vertical, Horizontal
CHAPTER 12 Nature and Its Discontents
PART 4: ANCIENTS IN MODERNITY
CHAPTER 13 From Elysium to Utica
Zwischenspiel (I)
CHAPTER 14 From Crete to Rome
PART 5: “. . . AND ALTHOUGH I AM NO COUNT . . .”
CHAPTER 15 Masters and Servants
Zwischenspiel (II)
CHAPTER 16 Gaits of History
CHAPTER 17 Looking for Enlightenment
CHAPTER 18 Tamino’s Wonder
Sarastro’s Sabbatical: This Is Not a Finale
Appendix: “Backstage”
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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