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Opera libretti of the eighteenth century : essays on the libretto as enlightenment text / edited and compiled by Pamela Gay-White ; with a foreword by Alfred E. Lemmon.

Title
Opera libretti of the eighteenth century : essays on the libretto as enlightenment text / edited and compiled by Pamela Gay-White ; with a foreword by Alfred E. Lemmon.
Publication
Lewiston, New York : Edwin Mellen Press, [2014]

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Additional Authors
  • Gay-White, Pamela.
  • Ray, Marcie.
  • Zeiss, Laurel.
  • Hodson, Daren Ivan.
  • Ward, Adrienne, 1957-
  • Nicassio, Susan Vandiver.
Description
235 pages ; 23 cm
Subject
  • 1700 - 1799
  • Libretto > 18th century
  • Opera > 18th century
  • Libretto
  • Opera
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Forsaking all 'others' : marriage and the birth of comedy in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee / by Marcie Ray -- Rousseau and the operatic sentimental / by Pamela Gay-White -- The Pasha does not sing : enlightenment themes and their musical treatment in Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail / by Laurel Zeiss -- Beaumarchais' Tarare : courtly art and radical enlightenment / by Daren Hodson -- Matrimonio segreto : marriage options in Venetian comic opera / by Adrienne Ward -- La Tosca or the perfect anti-18th century libretto / by Susan Vandiver Nicassio.
ISBN
  • 9781495503009
  • 1495503003
LCCN
^^2014047848
OCLC
898158599
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library