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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Opera Seria"”.
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel’s Post-academy Operas, 1738-1744
… explores the ways in which Handel’s late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works—from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel’s unconventional musical settings—can be seen …
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The Comedies of Opera Seria: Handel's Post-Academy Operas, 1738-1744
… explores the ways in which Handel's late operas intersect with other forms of theater in mid-eighteenth-century London. It seeks to explain how certain comic features of these late works--from the lighter subject matter of the libretti to Handel's unconventional musical settings--can be …
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"Reconstruction of Vivaldi's ""Armida Al Campo d'Egitto"
… substitute music was found in other Vivaldi operas and used for the surviving aria texts from Armida. In addition, new recitative was composed for Act II. Included in the paper is a summary of Vivaldi's career as an opera composer as well as information on opera seria. Furthermore, the …
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Opera at the Crossroads of Tradition and Reform in Gluck's Vienna
Operatic history is riddled with reform. Although at the discursive level all operatic reforms share similar motivations, their execution in practice yields extremely different results, each indicative of the time and place in which they occur. Despite their claims to pan-historical aesthetic truth …
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Joseph Haydn and the dramma giocoso
Haydn's thirteen extant Esterhazy operas, composed from 1762-85, represent a microcosm of the various trends in Italian opera during the eighteenth century. His early operas illustrate his understanding and mastery of the opera seria, the intermezzo and the opera buffa traditions which he would …
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Painting History in Mid-Century America: A Case Study of Friedel Dzubas’s Mature Style
… grounded in affective gestures of 18th-century opera seria. Dzubas’s turn toward Tiepolo affirms his commitment to the theatrical as well as to the pictorial structures of religious depictions of the Day of Judgment.
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Die Zauberflöte: A European Singspiel
… and native styles, an amalgam of European opera and culture was realized in the Singspiel.</p> <p>The distinctive qualities that make this form of staged drama so unique can be understood within the context of European opera in the early eighteenth century. "Opera," according to the New …