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Opera Ludica. Alcune riflessioni sul gioco a carte nel teatro musicale fra Ottocento e Novecento
2010
The essay aims to shed light on the relationship between opera and play, focusing on the card scenes in four operatic masterpieces of the 19th and 20th centuries: "Carmen" (1875), "The Queen of Spades" (1890), "The Girl of the Golden West" (1910) and "The Rake’s Progress" (1951). In these operas, the idea of play is much more than a simple cue or thematic subject: it has a substantial and paradigmatic function, directly connected with the dramaturgic and musical architecture of the work. On the other hand, these operas share some features that can be linked to the idea of time and to the metalinguistic value of play: although play and music take place in time, they tend to annul it, thus en…
"Scrivere a gusti del popolo". L'Arte Nuevo di Lope de Vega nell'Italia del Seicento
2007
The influence of Spanish Theater from the siglo de oro on Italian Seventeenth-century opera is stil an open question. Librettists (for example, G. F. Busenello in his Didone of 1641) speak of "Spanish customs" to claim exemption from Aristotelian rules; furthermore, several music dramas that were well-known thoughout Italy both in print and on stage derive - more or less directly - from Spanish theatrical texts. A particular aspect of the whole question can be seen in the popularity in Italy of Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias en este tiempo, a discourse on poetic written between 1604 and 1608 for the Academia de Madrid which was published in Madrid in 1609 and only two years lat…