The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre

Ultimo aggiornamento: 04 January 2023

Franić Tomić V., Prosperov Novak S., Stipčević E.

The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre

(17th and 18th Century)

Hollitzer Verlag Vienna 2020

Scheda a cura di: Franić Tomić V., Prosperov Novak S., Stipčević E.

Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century. In the "Golden Age of Croatian Literature," a hybrid drama genre was created. For more than a century, authors of this genre looked attentively at the most important trends of Italian opera production and followed them faithfully. In Croatian literature of the 17th and 18th century, a specific model of libretti without music was created, one that appropriated the Italian libretto. These plays were not performed along with functional music, although sometimes authors and actors would provide instrumental accompaniment to the texts. Nothing more needs to be said for the dissemination and specific reception of Italian opera librettos in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century to be understood as occupying a noteworthy place in the cultural life of Europe.

Contents:

Viktoria Franić Tomić, Slobodan Prosperov Novak

THE PECULIARITY OF THE CROATIAN RECEPTION OF DRAMATIC MUSIC IN THE 17th AND 18th CENTURY

1. The Croatian Contribution to the Late Renaissance Theory of Dramatic Music from Franjo Petrić (Francesco Patrizi) to Pasko Primović and Ivan Gundulić

2. Croatian Baroque Libretto-Based Drama: the Junije Palmotić Era

3. The dramatists Vice Pucić, Šiško Gundulić, Ivan Gučetić Jr., Jaketa Palmotić and the historian of the Venetian libretto Kristoforo Ivanović

4. Vučistrah by Petar Kanavelić, the central libretto-inspired drama of the second half of the 17th century

5. Antun Gleđević and Ivan Šiško Gundulić, followers of reform in the libretto from the time of Apostolo Zeno

6. Pietro Metastasio and the last phase of libretto-inspired drama in Dubrovnik

Ennio Stipčević

OPERA LIBRETTO WITHOUT MUSIC

1. The Renaissance heritage in Baroque theatre and music

2. The earliest Mantuan and Florentine libretti in Croatian translations

3. Venetian libretto writing and stage illusionism

4. Operatic reform in Croatian tragicomedy and music

5. Libretti without music