Opera and the Enlightenment

edited by Thomas Bauman and Marita Petzoldt McClymonds
Cambridge University Press
 9780521461726
0-521-46172-3

This is the first collection of essays to explore the wide dimensions and influence of eighteenth-century opera. In a series of fresh articles by leading scholars in the field, new perspectives are offered.

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on the important figures of the day, including Handel, Vivaldi, Gluck, Rameau and Mozart and on the fundamental problems of creation, revision, borrowing, influence and intertextuality. Sister arts, notably painting, the novel, ballet, and the spoken stage are also examined in their relationship to the development of opera. The book contains numerous rare illustrations, and will be of interest to scholars and students of opera and theater history.