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Opera in theory and practice, image and myth

"This sixth volume in the series centers on the sociological and critical aspects of opera in Italy, considering the art in the context of an Italian literary and cultural canon rarely revealed in English and American studies. In its six chapters, contributors survey critics' changing attitudes toward opera over several centuries, trace the evolution of formal conventions among librettists, explore the historical relationships between opera and Italian literature, and examine opera's place in Italian popular and national culture. In perhaps the volume's most striking contribution, German scholar Carl Dahlhaus offers his most important statement on the dramaturgy of opera."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2003
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ©2003
xiv, 456 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780226045924, 0226045927
54366110
Poetics and polemics / Renato Di Benedetto
The dramaturgy of Italian opera / Carl Dalhaus
Metrical and formal organization / Paolo Fabbri
Opera and Italian literature / Marzio Pieri
The dissemination and popularization of opera / Roberto Leydi
Opera in Italian national culture / Giovanni Morelli
Translation of: Teorie e tecniche immagini e fantasmi
Translated from the Italian