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The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle

By Georgia J. Cowart

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"Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. With a particular focus on the...

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Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera
Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera

By John A. Rice

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Bringing Salieri, his operas, and eighteenth-century Viennese theater vividly to life, Rice places Salieri where he belongs: no longer lurking in Mozart's shadow, but standing proudly among the lea...

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Opera Observed
Opera Observed

By William C. Holmes

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Verdi's theater
Verdi's theater

By Gilles De Van

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Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theater. De Van argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works: that of the "m...

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Seventeenth century opera and the sound of the commedia dell arte
Seventeenth century opera and the sound of the commedia dell arte

By Emily Wilbourne

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Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds of Italian opera and commedia dell'arte, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, Wilbourne brilliantly shows how the sound of co...

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