Vivaldi, "Motezuma" and the Opera Seria

Essays on a Newly Discovered Work and its Background. Edited by Michael Talbot.

Eight essays discuss the opera within the life and work of Vivaldi, the opera style and the representation of America and other exotic places at his time. Contents: Michael Talbot, Foreword - Steffen Voss, Antonio Vivaldi's Dramma per Musica Motezuma. Some Observations on Its Libretto and Music - Reinhard Strohm, Vivaldi and his Operas, 1730-34: A Critical Survey - Micky White and Michael Talbot, Pietro Mauro, detto "il Vivaldi": Failed Tenor, Failed Impresario, Failed Husband, Acclaimed Copyist - Jürgen Maehder, Alvise Giusti's Libretto Motezuma and the Conquest of Mexico in Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera Seria - Melania Bucciarelli, Taming the Exotic: Vivaldi's Armida al campo d'Egitto - Kurt Markstrom, The Vivaldi-Vinci Interconnections, 1724-26 and beyond: Implications for the Late Style of Vivaldi - Michael Talbot, Vivaldi's 'Late Style': Final fruition or Terminal Decline? - Frédéric Delaméa, Vivaldi in scena: Thoughts on The Revival of Vivaldi's Operas. XVII,218 Seiten mit 8 Abb. und zahlreichen Notenbeispielen, Leinen (Speculum musicae; vol. XIII/Brepols 2008)