Goldoni as Librettist: Theatrical Reform and the Drammi Giocosi Per Musica

by Ted Emery

Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) is widely recognized as one of Italy's finest playwrights, but his production for the operatic theatre is much less well known. While musicologists have established the importance of Goldoni's innovations in the form of the comic libretto, literary scholars have tended to see the drammi giocosi as at best a pale reflection of the plays, and at worst a distortion of the real Goldoni.
In Goldoni as Librettist,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820412309
• ISBN13: 9780820412306
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 240 Pages