Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- Part I The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Chapter 1 Pre-operatic forms
- Chapter 2 First operatic forms
- Chapter 3 Formalisation
- Chapter 4 Reform: the reintegration of elements
- Chapter 5 Comedy and the ‘real world’
- Chapter 6 Authentic performance
- Part II The nineteenth century
- Part III The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Appendix 1 Motifs from The Ring used in Chapter 10
- Appendix 2 The development of singing voices in opera
- Appendix 3 The development of lyric theatre alternatives to ‘opera’
- Appendix 4 Some major operas and artistic and political events of the twentieth century, 1899--2008
- Glossary of key terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Comedy and the ‘real world’
from Part I - The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- Part I The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Chapter 1 Pre-operatic forms
- Chapter 2 First operatic forms
- Chapter 3 Formalisation
- Chapter 4 Reform: the reintegration of elements
- Chapter 5 Comedy and the ‘real world’
- Chapter 6 Authentic performance
- Part II The nineteenth century
- Part III The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Appendix 1 Motifs from The Ring used in Chapter 10
- Appendix 2 The development of singing voices in opera
- Appendix 3 The development of lyric theatre alternatives to ‘opera’
- Appendix 4 Some major operas and artistic and political events of the twentieth century, 1899--2008
- Glossary of key terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Opera , pp. 70 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012