Inventing the Opera House - Theater Architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

List of contents

1. Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519; 2. Rome 1480s-1520; 3. Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto; 4. Sixteenth-century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena; 5. Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte; 6. Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio; 7. Drama-Tourney theaters; 8. Ferrara, Parma, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti; 9. Seventeenth-century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house; 10. Seventeenth-century theaters for comedy and opera; 11. Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.

About the author

Eugene J. Johnson is Amos Lawrence Professor of Art History at Williams College, Massachusetts.

Summary

This book about the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance, treats its subject in interdisciplinary ways that involve music, art, theater, politics, and renaissance studies. Its careful scholarship is for specialists, while its clear, lively prose is for general readers. It is the only work in English on the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene J Johnson, Eugene J. Johnson, Eugene J. (Williams College Johnson, Johnson Eugene J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108421744
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42174-4
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Italy, Opera, Concert halls, arenas, stadia