Nero in opera : librettos as transformations of ancient sources

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This book analyses the story of Nero and Octavia, as dramatically told in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia, and its transformations in (early) modern opera and related pieces of other performative genres. In a close examination of the libretto (and dramatic) texts, the impact of this fascinating story is...

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Main Author: Manuwald, Gesine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
Series:Transformationen der Antike ; Bd. 24.
Subjects:
Nero, > Emperor of Rome, > 37-68 > Songs and music.
Opera.
Libretto.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and outline; 1.2 Basis: the ancient sources and their reception in the Renaissance; 2.10 Silvani, La fortezza al cimento (1699); 1.3 Background: features of 17th- and 18th-century opera; 1.4 Ubiquity: the artistic reception of the Nero story; 2 Nero in opera; 2.1 Busenello, L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642/43); 2.2 Nero, Der Verzweifelte Und dadurch Das bedrengte Reich Befreyende (1663); 2.3 Aureli, Claudio Cesare (1671/72); 2.4 Corradi, Il Nerone / Nero (1678/79 / 1693); 2.5 Nero, Der verzweiffelte Selbst-Mörder (1685).
  • 2.6 Contri, Agrippina in Baia (1687)2.7 Neri, L'ingresso alla gioventù di Claudio Nerone (1692); 2.8 Noris, Nerone fatto Cesare (1692/93); 2.9 Noris, Il ripudio d'Ottavia (1699); 2.11 Feustking, Nero (1705); 2.12 Feind, Octavia (1705); 2.13 Grimani, Agrippina (1709); 2.14 Piovene, Nerone / Nero (1721 / 1723); 2.15 'Cimbaloni', Nerone detronato (1725/26); 2.16 Salfi, La congiura pisoniana (1797); 2.17 Barbier, Néron (1879); 2.18 Catelli, Nerone (1888); 2.19 Boito, Nerone (1901 / 1924); 2.20 Manén, Acté (1903 / 1908); Neró i Acté / Nero und Acté (1928); 2.21 Cain, Quo vadis? (1908/09).
  • 2.22 Targioni-Tozzetti, Nerone (1935)3 Nero in pieces of other performative genres; 3.1 Lohenstein, Agrippina (1665)
  • spoken drama; 3.2 Lohenstein, Epicharis (1665)
  • spoken drama; 3.3 Biancolelli, Il Nerone (1666)
  • spoken drama; 3.4 Boccaccio, Il Nerone (1675)
  • spoken drama; 3.5 Leva, Il Nerone (c. 1675-80)
  • spoken drama; 3.6 Lazarino, Gli sponsali per l'impero (1682)
  • spoken drama; 3.7 Alfieri, Ottavia (1783)
  • spoken drama; 3.8 Legouvé, Épicharis et Neron (1794)
  • spoken drama; 3.9 Panzieri, La morte di Nerone (1815/16)
  • ballet; 3.10 Cossa, Nerone (1871)
  • spoken drama.
  • 3.11 Pallerini, Nerone (1877)
  • ballet4 Conclusions; Appendices; App. 1: frequency and distribution of key motifs and main characters; App. 2: overview of all dramatic characters and their background; Bibliography.

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