Baroque music theatre
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So far, Stradella’s operatic production has been reconstructed on the basis of the operas that the musician composed in Genoa during the last years of his life. This article aims to present recent discoveries that shed light on... more
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Introducendo il ruolo dei castrati nell’opera settecentesca, mi sono concentrato su alcuni dei più applauditi virtuosi dell’ugola che si esibirono a Londra nelle opere di Haendel, analizzando i principali ruoli feticcio composti per essi,... more
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The name of the little-known Italian poet Giorgio Maria Rapparini functions surprisingly like a hypertext for the history of European art and culture between the late 17th and early 18th century. Born in Bologna, Rapparini spent most of... more
The relationship between poetics and literary practice within Italian literature in the seventeenth-century represents one of the most centraland controversial -research topics in early modern drama. 1 Understanding the relationship... more
Introductory paragraphs to the critical edition of Ridolfo Campeggi's Delle Poesie (1620); brief excerpt from some epithalamia; list of the members of the Accademia dei Gelati in Bologna.
In the early 18th century Venetian musical theatre circuit, the pasticcio was a ‘modus operandi’, even before it became a genre in its own right. The figure of the impresario, a specialist in the art of compromise, played a decisive role... more
Crowned by many as one of the immortal composers, George Frederick Handel (1685 – 1759) was the central figure in forging England's cultural identity amongst its European neighbors during the late 18 th and early 19 th century. The... more
Il Gigante, melodramma biblico pubblicato dal gesuita Leone Santi, anticipò alcune soluzioni sceniche dell'Erminia sul Giordano di Rospigliosi. Il testo fu uno degli esempi citati nel Corago come esempio di ottima versificazione. La... more
RESUMEN: En las fiestas poético-musicales del siglo XVII, una característica fundamental fue la representación de las autoridades mediante figuras relacionadas con la fantasía y el no realismo propios del mundo épico y caballeresco. Esta... more
This study seeks to present a philologically accurate edition of Ridolfo Campeggi’s collection of lyric poetry published in 1620, and to contextualize his work within a broader perspective in terms of the history of literature. The... more
Femminile e maschile nel Settecento / a cura di Cristina Passetti, Lucio Tufano. -Firenze : Firenze University Press, 2018. (Biblioteca di Storia ; 31) http://digital.casalini.it/9788864537139 ISBN 978-88-6453-711-5 (print) ISBN... more
Nel teatro musicale seicentesco, la formazione di un istituto comico, che solo nel secolo successivo si concreterà in una tradizione unitaria e continuativa, si può riconoscere in alcune linee abbastanza chiare pur... more
Lecture presenting a chapter of my Ph-Disseration on the painter Francisco Rizi (1614-1680) that deals with the painter's activity as a collaborator of Baccio del Bianco on the creation of theater stages at the Spanish court.... more
L’ambigua identità delle Amazzoni e la loro rivendicazione di un potere esclusivamente femminile hanno affascinato fin da subito il mondo operistico seicentesco, che ne ha sfruttato con prontezza il potenziale drammaturgico e... more
Rosenbergs (Rožmberkové in Czech), Eggenbergs and Schwarzenbergs were very powerful aristocratic families. In my paper I concentrate on their relation to dance and its scenic forms, in which the aristocrats often took part. I introduce... more
La ‘festa teatrale’ La Caduta del Regno delle Amazzoni, messa in scena a Roma nel 1690 e musicata da Bernardo Pasquini su libretto di Domenico De Totis, rappresenta una delle più interessanti pubblicazioni librettistiche, corredata di... more
A specific model of opera libretto without music in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in... more
Recensione della mostra "Il carro d'oro di Johann Paul Schor. L'effimero splendore dei carnevali barocchi" (a cura di Alessandra Griffo e Maria Matilde Simari, Firenze, Palazzo Pitti - 2019) pubblicata su "Alias", l'inserto domenicale de... more
Project of Accademia Filarmonica di Verona, Conservatorio Statale di Musica di Verona and Fondazione Cariverona. The project aims to study and publish in a diplomatic edition (with summaries, essays and chronology) the documents produced... more
PDF available in ORFEO : https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/7790
Riscritture teatrali di un libro deuterocanonico: dal Tobia di Giovan Maria Cecchi alla Celeste guida di Iacopo Cicognini In La letteratura degli italiani 4. I letterati e la scena, Atti del XVI Congresso Nazionale Adi, Sassari-Alghero,... more
The article examines for the first time the relevant collection of the “Drammi musicali” (Rome, 1631) by Ottavio Tronsarelli. Primarily, this study aims to throw light on patronage, circumstances and dating of at least a part of these... more
The conditions that enable historical objects to survive in original form are rather paradoxical: their creators must have thought them important enough to invest time and resources in making them beautiful, but subsequent generations... more
in: Händel-Jahrbuch 62, 2016, pp 83-96