Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia Dell'arte

by Emily Wilbourne

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later.

Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi's lost L'Arianna,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022640157X
• ISBN13: 9780226401577
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"