TY  - BOOK
TI  - (Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera: multidisciplinary perspectives 
SN  - 9789058679000
AV  - ML1727 D57 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leuven, Belgium
PB  - Leuven University Press
KW  - Opera
KW  - France
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Mythology, Classical, in opera
N1  - Lo scherno degli dei : myth and derision in the dramma per musica of the seventeenth century / Jean-François Lattarico -- Helpings from the great banquets of epic : Handel's Teseo, and Arianna in Creta / Robert C. Ketterer -- Envoicing the divine : oracles in lyric and spoken drama in seventeenth-century France / Geoffrey Burgess -- Addressing the divine : the 'numinous' accompagnato in opera seria / Bruno Forment -- Iphigenia's curious Ménange à trois in myth, drama, and opera / Reinhard Strohm -- Spectatorship and involvement in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride / Bram van Oostveldt; HKBU library; YT2025 M08
N2  - Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
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