Pietro Metastasio’s Operatic Storm

Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. His drammi per musica travelled all around Europe – and beyond – throughout the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. Courts, palaces, and public theatres were ea...

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description Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. His drammi per musica travelled all around Europe – and beyond – throughout the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. Courts, palaces, and public theatres were eager to perform his dramas, and so hundreds of composers set them to music, sometimes on more than one occasion.This volume lets the surviving textual and musical traces speak for themselves. As a catalogue of the sources of five of Metastasio’s most successful titles – Didone abbandonata, Alessandro nell’Indie, Artaserse, Adriano in Siria, and Demofoonte –, it offers their most complete chronology up to date, as well as a detailed presentation of the printers and the theatres in which these texts became alive. In the case of the majority of these works, thousands of manuscripts and copies attest to more than one hundred complete musical versions and over two hundred and fifty productions. They may thus rightly be considered witnesses to the operatic fever that took Europe by storm in the Enlightenment.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1509812025-02-10T17:03:52Z Pietro Metastasio’s Operatic Storm Llorens, Ana Opera Bibliographies and catalogues Theatre & performing arts thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AV Music::AVL Music: styles and genres::AVLF Opera Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) can be considered as the most renowned operatic dramatist of eighteenth-century Europe. His drammi per musica travelled all around Europe – and beyond – throughout the eighteenth century and the early years of the nineteenth. Courts, palaces, and public theatres were eager to perform his dramas, and so hundreds of composers set them to music, sometimes on more than one occasion.This volume lets the surviving textual and musical traces speak for themselves. As a catalogue of the sources of five of Metastasio’s most successful titles – Didone abbandonata, Alessandro nell’Indie, Artaserse, Adriano in Siria, and Demofoonte –, it offers their most complete chronology up to date, as well as a detailed presentation of the printers and the theatres in which these texts became alive. In the case of the majority of these works, thousands of manuscripts and copies attest to more than one hundred complete musical versions and over two hundred and fifty productions. They may thus rightly be considered witnesses to the operatic fever that took Europe by storm in the Enlightenment. 2025-02-10T17:03:51Z 2025-02-10T17:03:51Z 2024 book ONIX_20250210_9782503604367_54 9782503604367 9782503604374 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150981 eng Epitome musical image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503604367-1 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.EM-EB.5.132181 Brepols Brepols 10.1484/M.EM-EB.5.132181 10.1484/M.EM-EB.5.132181 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503604367 9782503604374 Brepols 480 Turnhout open access
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Pietro Metastasio’s Operatic Storm
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Bibliographies and catalogues
Theatre & performing arts
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