The Birth of Opera: The Accademia degli Incogniti
Catherine Bott explores opera's success in Venice and the mysterious Accademia degli Incogniti's role. Opera arrived in 1637 and heralded a virtual avalanche of new productions.
Opera arrived in Venice with the opera Andromeda, brought to the city in 1637 and that began a virtual avalanche of productions there, so that just three years later Venice's third Opera house had opened and showed a total of five different new works during the 1640 carnival season. But the story of Opera's explosion in Venice is an intriguing one, with a plot which reads like a deft political thriller. Catherine Bott explores Opera's success in the watery city and the powerful role of the mysterious Accademia degli Incogniti.
Bibliography
Ellen Rosand - Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre
Muir - The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance
Glixon & Glixon - Inventing the Business of Opera.
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Egisto (Librettist: Faustini)
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- HYPERION.
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L'Incoronazione di Poppea (librettist: Busenello)
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