TY - BOOK ID - 458131 TI - (Dis)embodying myths in Ancien Régime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives PY - 2012 SN - 9789058679000 9058679004 PB - Leuven University Press DB - UniCat KW - Music KW - opera's KW - Theatrical science KW - muziekgeschiedenis KW - Thematology KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - Academic collection KW - Mythology, Classical, in opera. KW - Opera KW - 792.5 KW - Theatervormen: voorstellingen met tekst en muziek KW - 792.5 Theatervormen: voorstellingen met tekst en muziek KW - Mythology, Classical, in opera KW - Gluck-Piccinni controversy KW - Querelle des Bouffons KW - Comic opera KW - Lyric drama KW - Opera, Comic KW - Operas KW - Drama KW - Dramatic music KW - Singspiel KW - History and criticism KW - 17e eeuw KW - Opera's KW - Muziekgeschiedenis KW - Theaterwetenschappen KW - 18e eeuw KW - Literary themes, motives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:458131 AB - Throughout the Ancien Régime, mythology played a vital role in opera, defining such epoch-making works as Claudio Monteverdi's 'La favola d'Orfeo' (1607) and Christoph Gluck's 'Iphigénie en Tauride' (1779). The operatic presence of the Greco-Roman gods and heroes was anything but unambiguous or unproblematic, however. This book highlights myth's chameleonic life in the Italian 'dramma per musica' and French 'tragédie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ER -