TY - BOOK ID - 77742517 TI - (Dis)embodying myths in Ancien ReĢgime opera : multidisciplinary perspectives PY - 2012 SN - 946166057X 9789461660572 9789058679000 9058679004 PB - Leuven : Leuven University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mythology, Classical, in opera. KW - 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 - Mythology, Classical, in opera UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77742517 AB - Throughout the Ancien Regime, 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 'Iphigenie 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 'tragedie en musique' of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ER -