Ellen Rosand - Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage: Manuscript, Edition, Production

READYING CAVALLIS OPERAS FOR THE STAGE

ASHGATE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN OPERA

Series Editor

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

University of Iowa

Advisory Board

Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, Canada

David Levin, University of Chicago, USA

Herbert Lindenberger, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University, USA

Julian Rushton, Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds, UK

The Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera series provides a centralized and prominent forum for the presentation of cutting-edge scholarship that draws on numerous disciplinary approaches to a wide range of subjects associated with the creation, performance, and reception of opera (and related genres) in various historical and social contexts. There is great need for a broader approach to scholarship about opera. In recent years, the course of study has developed significantly, going beyond traditional musicological approaches to reflect new perspectives from literary criticism and comparative literature, cultural history, philosophy, art history, theatre history, gender studies, film studies, political science, philology, psycho-analysis, and medicine. The new brands of scholarship have allowed a more comprehensive interrogation of the complex nexus of means of artistic expression operative in opera, one that has meaningfully challenged prevalent historicist and formalist musical approaches. The Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera series continues to move this important trend forward by including essay collections and monographs that reflect the ever-increasing interest in opera in non-musical contexts. Books in the series will be linked by their emphasis on the study of a single genre opera yet will be distinguished by their individualized and novel approaches by scholars from various disciplines/fields of inquiry. The remit of the series welcomes studies of seventeenth century to contemporary opera from all geographical locations, including non-Western topics.

Readying Cavallis Operas for the Stage

Manuscript, Edition, Production

Edited by

ELLEN ROSAND

Yale University, USA

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Readying Cavallis operas for the stage: manuscript, edition, production. (Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera)

1. Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 16021676. 2. Opera20th century. 3. Opera21st century.

I. Series II. Rosand, Ellen.

782.1092-dc23

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Readying Cavallis operas for the stage : manuscript, edition, production / edited by Ellen Rosand.

pages cm. (Ashgate interdisciplinary studies in opera)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-4094-1218-2 (hbk) 1. Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 16021676. Operas. 2. Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 16021676Performances. 3. OperaProduction and direction.

I. Rosand, Ellen, editor.

ML410.C3913R43 2013

782.1092dc23

2012042530

ISBN 9781409412182 (hbk)

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Contents

Ellen Rosand

Jane Glover

lvaro Torrente

Dinko Fabris

Jennifer Williams Brown

Christine Jeanneret

Hendrik Schulze

Beth L. Glixon

Jonathan Glixon

Wendy Heller

Lawrence Manley

Fausta Antonucci and Lorenzo Bianconi

Anna Tedesco

Nicola Badolato

Thomas Lin and Joseph Salem

Nicola Michelassi

Davide Daolmi

Michael Klaper

Barbara Nestola

Fausta Antonucci is professor of Spanish Literature at Roma Tre University. Besides many essays on Spanish theater of the Siglo de Oro and its reception in seventeenth-century Italy, she has edited works of Lope de Vega (Peribez y el Comendador de Ocaa, El perro del hortelano) and Pedro Caldern de la Barca (La dama duende, La vida es sueo, and the auto El verdadero Dios Pan).

Nicola Badolato, a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Bologna, is the author of I drammi musicali di Giovanni Faustini per Francesco Cavalli (2012). In 2009 he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Music, Yale University. He conducts his research at the University of Bologna, Department of Visual, Performing, and Media Arts. He is one of the text-editors for the Brenreiter Cavalli edition and the libretto editor of its inaugural volume, La Calisto (2012).

Lorenzo Bianconi is Professor of Musical Dramaturgy at the University of Bologna. Recipient of the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association (1983), he is the author of Music in the Seventeenth Century