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This volume examines the extensive influence of Pietro Metastasio, a prolific dramatist of the 18th century, on opera seria. It collects literary and musical sources from Metastasio's operatic works, such as Didone abbandonata and Alessandro nell’Indie, which were set to music over a thousand times by numerous composers. The book, part of the Didone Project funded by an ERC Advanced Grant, aims to explore emotional expression in Metastasio's operas. It offers a detailed analysis of Metastasio's influence on the development of opera, backed by systematic research including bibliographic resources and archival exploration. The intended audience includes musicologists, historians, and scholars interested in operatic studies.

Dramatists, Italian. --- Opera in literature. --- Dramatists, Italian --- Opera in literature

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The turning point of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert memorably set at the opera, is only the most famous example of a surprisingly long tradition, one common to a range of French literary styles and sub-genres. In the first book-length study of that tradition to appear in English, Cormac Newark examines representations of operatic performance from Balzac's La Comédie humaine to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, by way of (among others) Dumas père's Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Attentive to textual and musical detail alike in the works, the study also delves deep into their reception contexts. The result is a compelling cultural-historical account: of changing ways of making sense of operatic experience from the 1820s to the 1920s, and of a perennial writerly fascination with the recording of that experience.

French fiction --- Opera in literature. --- Roman français --- Opéra dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Roman français --- Opéra dans la littérature

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French fiction --- Opera in literature --- Music in literature. --- Roman français --- Opéra dans la littérature --- Musique dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique