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Preface; 1: What is Opera?; Some definitions; In praise of librettists; Italian versification; Poetic structures and musical consequences; Two examples from Mozart; An exotic and irrational entertainment?; 2: Giovanni Francesco Busenello and Claudio Monteverdi,; L’incoronazione di Poppea (Venice, 1643); Monteverdi in Venice; The first operas; But here the matter is represented differently; Speaking and singing; Seductive Poppea; Seneca’s death; Ottavia in exile; Ecstasies of love; 3: Nicola Francesco Haym and George Frideric Handel,; Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724); Arcadian reforms; Adapting Bussani; Recitatives and arias; Some alternatives; Fly, my heart, to the sweet enchantment; Taming Cleopatra; Cesare returns; All’s well...; 4: Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,; Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna, 1786); ... these Italian gentlemen are very civil to your face; Translating Beaumarchais; Aria forms; A duet, a trio, and a sextet; Finales; Readings and messages; 5: Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi,; Rigoletto (Venice, 1851); Le Roi s’amuse; Cantabiles and cabalettas; Duets; Arias and monologues; A quartet ... a storm ... and a death; 6: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, and Giacomo Puccini,; La Boheme (Turin, 1896); Bohemian rhapsodies; A publisher, two librettists, and a rival; A missing act; Verse and music; Formless forms?; Operatic realisms; Mimi dies; 7: Afterthoughts

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