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Author Manuwald, Gesine, author.

Title Nero in opera : librettos as transformations of ancient sources / Gesine Manuwald
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (420 pages)
Series Transformationen der Antike, 2366-1402 ; Band 24
Transformationen der Antike ; Bd. 24. 2366-1402
Contents Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and outline; 1.2 Basis: the ancient sources and their reception in the Renaissance; 2.10 Silvani, La fortezza al cimento (1699); 1.3 Background: features of 17th- and 18th-century opera; 1.4 Ubiquity: the artistic reception of the Nero story; 2 Nero in opera; 2.1 Busenello, L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642/43); 2.2 Nero, Der Verzweifelte Und dadurch Das bedrengte Reich Befreyende (1663); 2.3 Aureli, Claudio Cesare (1671/72); 2.4 Corradi, Il Nerone / Nero (1678/79 / 1693); 2.5 Nero, Der verzweiffelte Selbst-Mörder (1685)
2.6 Contri, Agrippina in Baia (1687)2.7 Neri, L'ingresso alla gioventù di Claudio Nerone (1692); 2.8 Noris, Nerone fatto Cesare (1692/93); 2.9 Noris, Il ripudio d'Ottavia (1699); 2.11 Feustking, Nero (1705); 2.12 Feind, Octavia (1705); 2.13 Grimani, Agrippina (1709); 2.14 Piovene, Nerone / Nero (1721 / 1723); 2.15 'Cimbaloni', Nerone detronato (1725/26); 2.16 Salfi, La congiura pisoniana (1797); 2.17 Barbier, Néron (1879); 2.18 Catelli, Nerone (1888); 2.19 Boito, Nerone (1901 / 1924); 2.20 Manén, Acté (1903 / 1908); Neró i Acté / Nero und Acté (1928); 2.21 Cain, Quo vadis? (1908/09)
2.22 Targioni-Tozzetti, Nerone (1935)3 Nero in pieces of other performative genres; 3.1 Lohenstein, Agrippina (1665) -- spoken drama; 3.2 Lohenstein, Epicharis (1665) -- spoken drama; 3.3 Biancolelli, Il Nerone (1666) -- spoken drama; 3.4 Boccaccio, Il Nerone (1675) -- spoken drama; 3.5 Leva, Il Nerone (c. 1675-80) -- spoken drama; 3.6 Lazarino, Gli sponsali per l'impero (1682) -- spoken drama; 3.7 Alfieri, Ottavia (1783) -- spoken drama; 3.8 Legouvé, Épicharis et Neron (1794) -- spoken drama; 3.9 Panzieri, La morte di Nerone (1815/16) -- ballet; 3.10 Cossa, Nerone (1871) -- spoken drama
3.11 Pallerini, Nerone (1877) -- ballet4 Conclusions; Appendices; App. 1: frequency and distribution of key motifs and main characters; App. 2: overview of all dramatic characters and their background; Bibliography
Summary This book analyses the story of Nero and Octavia, as dramatically told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia, and its transformations in (early) modern opera and related pieces of other performative genres. In a close examination of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the impact of this fascinating story is shown from the beginning of historical opera. The volume is therefore of relevance to literary scholars as well as to readers interested in the history of opera
Analysis Nero
Octavia
opera
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
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Subject Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 -- Songs and music
SUBJECT Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 fast
Subject Opera.
Libretto.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Opera.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Opera & Classical Scores.
Libretto
Opera
Genre/Form Music
Songs and music
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110317510
3110317516
9781299720688
1299720684