Title: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760
Author: Selfridge-Field, Eleanor
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 784
Dimensions: 11.25h x 8.87w x 1.88d
Product Weight: 4.5 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780804744379

From 1637 to the middle of the eighteenth century, Venice was the world center for operatic activity. No exact chronology of the Venetian stage during this period has previously existed in any language. This reference work, the culmination of two decades of research throughout Europe, provides a secure ordering of 800 operas and 650 related works from the period 1660 to 1760. Derived from thousands of manuscript news-sheets and other unpublished materials, the Chronology provides a wealth of new information on about 1500 works. Each entry in this production-based survey provides not only perfunctory reference information but also a synopsis of the text, eyewitness accounts, and pointers to surviving musical scores. What emerges, in addition to secure dates, is a profusion of new information about events, personalities, patronage, and the response of opera to changing political and social dynamics. Appendixes and supplements provide basic information in Venetian history for music, drama, and theater scholars who are not specialists in Italian studies.

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