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Jacopo Melani
Il potestà di Colognole
Edited by James Leve
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ISBN 0-89579-568-X |
(May 2005) c + 241 pp. |
$152.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-568-7 (13-digit) |
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The work presented in this volume is the first Florentine comic opera and
one of only two with extant music (the second, Le nozze in sogno,
will appear in a companion volume). Il potestà di Colognole
established a number of comic opera conventions, including the use of dialect.
The opera's composer, Jacopo Melani, and librettist, Giovanni Andrea Moniglia,
were dominant figures in early Florentine comic opera. The music of Il
potestà di Colognole reveals Melani's deft handling of the dramatic
demands of comic theater, and the libretto attests to Moniglia's wit and
innovative dramatic design. This volume, the first modern edition of an
authentic comic opera from the seventeenth century, is an invaluable resource
to both scholars and performers. It includes an English translation of the
text along with the philological explanations provided by Moniglia in the
1689 edition of his collected dramatic works. Music
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