Research Catalog

Title

From Garrick to Gluck : essays on opera in the age of Enlightenment / Daniel Heartz ; edited by John A. Rice.

Author

Heartz, Daniel.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.Y. : Pendragon Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

Rice, John A.

Description

xvi, 335 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Opera series ; no. 1

Uniform Title

Opera series (Pendragon Press) ; no. 1.

Subjects

• Enlightenment
• Opera > 18th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Opera Buffa -- 1. Vis comica : Goldoni, Galuppi, and L'arcadia in Brenta -- 2. The creation of the Buffo finale -- 3. Goldoni, Opera Buffa, and Mozart's advent in Vienna -- Opera Seria -- 4. Metastasio, "Maestro dei maestri di cappella drammatici" -- 5. Hasse, Galuppi, and Metastasio -- 6. Farinelli and Metastasio : rival twins of public favor -- 7. Farinelli revisited : from the sublime to the ridiculous -- Opera-comique -- 8. Terpsichore at the fair : old and new dance airs in two vaudeville comedies by Lesage -- 9. Watteau's Italian comedians -- 10. The beggar's opera and opera-comique en vaudevilles -- 11. Beginnings of the operatic romance : Rousseau, Sedaine, and Monsigny -- The Querelle des Bouffons -- 12. Grimm's le petit prophete de Boehmischbroda -- 13. Italian by intention, French of necessity : Rousseau's Le devin de village -- 14. Diderot and the lyric theater : "The new style" proposed by Le neveu de Rameau -- Reform opera -- 15. From Garrick to Gluck : the reform of theater and opera in the mid-eighteenth century -- 16. Traetta in Parma : Ippolito ed Aricia -- 17. Traetta in Vienna : Armida and Ifigenia in Tauride -- 18. Orfeo ed Euridice : some criticisms, revisions, and stage realizations during Gluck's lifetime.

ISBN

1576470814 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004016983

OCLC

• ocm56011014
• SCSB-9445277

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries