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Opera on Stage.(Book Review)
Edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Translations by Kate Singleton. (The History of Italian Opera, Part 2. Systems. Vol. 5.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. [xii 346 p. ISBN 0-226-04591-9. $55.] Illustrations, bibliographies, indexes.
By 1700 critics of Italian opera had begun to identify the aesthetic difficulties posed by opera as a dramatic event. Opera was not only a poetic text set to music; it had also become a complex system of visual symbols that involved spectacular elements, including the construction of a theatrical space, the use of set design, and the coordination of theatrical acting and ballet. Opera on Stage, the English ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Opera on Stage.(Book Review)