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Domenico Cimarosa His Life and His Operas
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Nick Rossi, Talmage Fauntleroy
Book Code: GM0112
ISBN: 0-313-30112-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30112-4
240 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/1999
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance
Series Number: 50
Reviews:
  • Illustrated and thoroughly indexed, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the 18th-century opera scholarship and to an understanding of the work of a long-neglected Mozart contemporary.
    —Choice
  • ...Rossi and Fauntleroy have advanced considerably our knowledge of the composer and his operas.
    —The State
Description: This is the first book in English about Domenico Cimarosa, his more than 65 operas and his sacred and secular vocal music, his keyboard music, and his various works for solo instruments and ensembles. This is also the first authoritative book on Cimarosa since an Italian biography published in 1939. Since that earlier tome was published, many important discoveries have come to light. The authors completed most of their research work at the library of the Conservatorio di musica S Pietro a Majella in Naples. Their efforts have uncovered new information on the composer's marriages, wives, children, actual performance locations, dates of first performances of his operas, and his professional appointments and contacts. The first half of the book is devoted to a chronological description of Cimarosa's life and provides background material on the customs of the times and contemporary descriptions of the music conservatories in Naples where Cimarosa studied, as well as those in Venice where he was appointed Maestro. The second part presents an alphabetical listing of Cimarosa's more than 65 operas, including alternate names for those that were produced on different stages under different names. Included with each opera is a simple outline of the plot, the cast of characters and their voice ranges, and basic information about the structure of the music itself.
Table of Contents:
  • His Life
  • Cimarosa: The Man and His Music
  • The Youthful Years (1749-1771)
  • The Setting: Opera in Naples During the 18th Century
  • The Early Operas: From Le stravaganze del conte (1772) to L'infedeltà fedele (1779)
  • The Road to Success
  • An Amorous Intermezzo
  • Russia
  • The Years of Glory
  • The Final Years
  • His Operas
  • Achille all'assedio di Troja
  • Alessandro nell'Indie
  • Amor combatutto dalle donne di punto
  • Gli amanti comici
  • Amor rende sagace
  • L'apparenza inganna
  • L'apprensivo raggirato
  • L'Armida immaginaria
  • Artaserse
  • Artemesia
  • Artemesia, regina di Caria
  • Le astuzie femminili
  • L'avviso ai maritati
  • La ballerina amante
  • La baronessa Stramba
  • La bella Greca/I matrimoni impensati
  • La biondolina
  • Cajo Mario
  • La calamità dei cuori
  • Il capriccio drammatico
  • Chi dell'altrui si veste presto si spoglia
  • Circe
  • Il credulo
  • La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia
  • Le donne rivali
  • I due baroni di Rocca Azzura
  • I due supposti conti, ossia Lo sposo senza moglie
  • L'Eroe cinese
  • Il Falegname
  • Il fanatico burlato
  • Il fanatico per gli antichi romani
  • La felicità inaspettata
  • La finta amalata
  • La finta frascatana
  • La finta parigina
  • I finti nobili
  • Gare degli'amanti
  • Giannina e Bernardone
  • Giunio Bruto
  • L'impegno superato
  • L'impresario in angustie
  • L'imprudente fortunato
  • L'infedeltà fedele
  • L'italiana in Londra
  • Il maestro di cappella
  • Le magie di Merlina e Zoroaster
  • Il marito disperato
  • I matrimoni in ballo
  • Il matrimonio per raggiro
  • Il matrimonio segreto
  • Il mercato di Malmantile
  • I nemici generosi
  • L'Olimpiade
  • Gli Orazii e i Curiazzi
  • Oreste
  • Penelope
  • Pigmalinoe
  • Il pittor parigino
  • Il ritorno di Don Calandrino
  • Gli sdegni per amore
  • Li sposi per accidente
  • Le stravaganze d'amore
  • Le stravaganze del conte
  • I traci amanti
  • Le trame deluse
  • I tre amanti
  • La vanità delusa
  • Il vecchio burlato
  • La vergine del sole
  • La villana riconosciuta
  • Voldomiro
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-23934
LCC Class: ML410
Dewey Class: 782
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