Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became
sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a …

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of
delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have …

How can we write about performance in the past? I have answered this question by taking
as my subject the life and work of a particular performer: the commedia dell'arte actress and …

This essay offers a new interpretation of Handel's Admeto (1727) in the context of its literary
and operatic antecedents. Focusing on the erotic triangle between the lover, the beloved …

This dissertation explores the patronage of music and theater of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria
Mancini Colonna, husband and wife and members of one of the most illustrious and ancient …

Imagine a performance of Swan Lake in which Odette waves her arms up and down and
runs in circles while a puzzled Prince Siegfried looks on, scratching his head. Eventually the …

It has been the opinion of many, most Christian Queen, that the ancient Greeks and
Romans, in representing their tragedies upon the stage, sang them throughout. But until now …

Opera was invented at the end of the sixteenth century in imitation of the supposed style of
delivery of ancient Greek tragedy, and, since then, operas based on Greek drama have …

This study has been conceived to verify whether Francesco Cavalli (Crema, 1602–Venice,
1676), the most representative composer of seventeenth-century Venetian opera, used what …

Enhanced attention has been paid in recent decades to opera production history. As staging
and design practices evolved from the use of stock sets at the end of the seventeenth …