Operas based on Greek drama - primarily tragedy - have been, and are, among the most important in the repertoire, and this collection of essays by leading authorities in a variety of disciplines provides an exceptionally wide-ranging and detailed overview of the relationship between the two genres.
CONTENTS
1 Roger Savage: Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: the Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera
2 Michele Napolitano: Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manque
3 Jason Geary: Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism
4 Wendy Heller: Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera
5 Jennifer Thorp: Dance in Lully's Alceste
6 Amy Wygant: The Ghost of Alcestis
7 Suzana Ograjensek: The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s
8 Robert C. Ketterer: Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene
9 Reinhard Strohm: Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Debut of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729)
10 Michael Burden: Establishing a text, securing a reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle
11 Bruno Forment: The Gods out of the Machine . . . and their Comeback
12 Simon Goldhill: Who Killed Gluck?
13 Simone Beta: The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata
14 Michael Ewans & Anastasia Belina: Taneyev's Oresteia
15 Christian Wolff: Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy
16 Stephen Walsh: The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus
17 Robert Cowan: Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae
18 Nicholas Attfield: Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann
19 David Beard: 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir