Tables of Contents for Italian Opera

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Chapter/Section Title

Page #

Page Count

List of illustrations

Preface

A note on Italian prosody

Map

Introduction: the Italianness of Italian opera

Part I. The Origins of Opera: 1. The Renaissance intermedi

2. The elements of early opera

3. The beginnings of opera

4. Monteverdi's Orfeo

Part II. The Venetian Hegemony: 5. Opera in seventeenth-century Rome

6. Opera comes to Venice

7. The nature of Venetian opera

8. The development of the musical language

9. Cesti's L'Orontea

Part III. Opera Seria: 10. The dramma per musica

11. 'Perfection and public favour'

12. The performance of opera seria

13. The collapse of the Metastasian ideal

14. Opera seria in an age of ferment

15. A half-century of L'Olimpiade

Part IV. The Tragedy of Comedy: 16. The commedia dell'arte

17. Contrascene and intermezzi

18. The flowering of comic opera in Naples and Venice

19. Apogee and decline

20. Il barbiere di Siviglia: Paisiello's and Rossini's settings

Part V. Romantic Opera: 21. Italian Romanticism

22. Dramatic themes: the libretto

23. The life of the theatre

24. The musical language of Italian Romantic opera

25. Rossini in Naples

26. A franker Romanticism

27. The young Verdi

28. Bellini's Norma

Part VI. Cosmopolitanism and Decadence: 29. Italian grand opera

30. Scapigliati and bohemians

31. Verdi and Boito

32. Verismo

Personalia

Notes

Bibliography

Index.