History of opera and related genres of XVII-XIX cent. - chosen topics 3106-HGMSXVII/XXI-2

A lecture devoted to changes, moments of transition, stylistic clashes and rivalry in stage music in the 17th-19th centuries. Among the topics discussed will be issues such as:

1. English mask, semi-opera and Italian opera
2. Alessandro Scarlatti - Leonardo Vinci – transition from mature Baroque to the galant style
2. G Bononcini and G. F Handel in London
3. L. Vinci and N. Porpora . Rivalry within a single style
4. Beggars Opera
5. Gluck and the reform of Metastasio's opera
6. Opera buffa and opera comique. Italy and France in the midst of operatic polemics
7. W. A. Mozart's early and late operas
8. L. Cherubini Italian and French
9. The chain finale in comic opera and 19th-century melodrama
10. Rossini's revolutions
11. Rivalry between singers

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