Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Blair Hoxby
1. Machine Plays in France: Between Italian Opera and French
Tragedy in Music
Hélène Visentin
2. Opera, Tragedy, and Tragédie en Musique between Lully and
Rameau
Blair Hoxby
3. Tragedy in Flux
Downing A. Thomas
4. Temptations of Love: Negotiating Tragic and Pastoral
Inheritances at the Crossroads of Opera’s Early Modern History
Stefanie Tcharos
5. Claiming Women’s Moral Agency: Luisa Bergalli as Poet
Librettist
Francesca Savoia
6. Metastasio’s Theatre and Early Modern Political Philosophy:
Tyrannicide, Clemency, Natural Law
Enrico Zucchi
7. Game of Thrones in the Russian Empire: Metastasio Revisited
for St Petersburg
Tatiana Korneeva
8. Recognition Scenes: Handel’s Oreste, Audience Reception, and
Competition at the London Opera
Robert C. Ketterer
9. Terror and Intoxication: Calzabigi’s Ipermestra o Le Danaidi
(1778–1784)
Magnus Tessing Schneider
10. From Serio to Sentimental: The Legacy of Tragic Opera in
Carlo Goldoni’s Drammi Giocosi per Musica
Pervinca Rista
Bibliography
Contributor List
Index
Blair Hoxby is a professor of English at Stanford University.
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