Table of Contents

1: Roger Savage: Precursors, Precedents, Pretexts: the Institutions of Greco-Roman Theatre and the Development of European Opera 2: Michele Napolitano: Greek Tragedy and Opera: Notes on a Marriage Manqué 3: Jason Geary: Incidental Music and the Revival of Greek Tragedy from the Italian Renaissance to German Romanticism 4: Wendy Heller: Phaedra's Handmaiden: Tragedy as Comedy and Spectacle in Seventeenth-Century Opera 5: Jennifer Thorp: Dance in Lully's Alceste 6: Amy Wygant: The Ghost of Alcestis 7: Suzana Ograjensek: The Rise and Fall of Andromache on the Operatic Stage, 1660s-1820s 8: Robert C. Ketterer: Opera Librettos and Greek Tragedy in Eighteenth-Century Venice: The Case of Agostino Piovene 9: Reinhard Strohm: Ancient Tragedy in Opera, and the Operatic Début of Oedipus the King (Munich, 1729) 10: Michael Burden: Establishing a text, securing a reputation: Metastasio's Use of Aristotle 11: Bruno Forment: The Gods out of the Machine . . . and their Comeback 12: Simon Goldhill: Who Killed Gluck? 13: Simone Beta: The Metamorphosis of a Greek Comedy and its Protagonist: Some Musical Versions of Aristophanes' Lysistrata 14: Michael Ewans & Anastasia Belina: Taneyev's Oresteia 15: Christian Wolff: Crossings of Experimental Music and Greek Tragedy 16: Stephen Walsh: The Action Drama and the Still Life: Enescu, Stravinsky, and Oedipus 17: Robert Cowan: Sing Evohe! Three Twentieth-Century Operatic Versions of Euripides' Bacchae 18: Nicholas Attfield: Re-staging the Welttheater: A Critical View of Carl Orff's Antigonae and Oedipus der Tyrann 19: David Beard: 'Batter the Doom Drum': The Music for Peter Hall's Oresteia and other Productions of Greek Tragedy by Harrison Birtwistle and Judith Weir

About the Author

Peter Brown is a Lecturer in Classics at Oxford University, a Fellow of Trinity College, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. He has published extensively on Greek and Roman drama (mainly comedy), and his translation of the Comedies of Terence appeared in the Oxford World's Classics series in January, 2008. Suzana Ograjensekis a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Unversity of Cambridge, and a former Research
Assistant at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Oxford. She is a specialist in baroque opera and has worked extensively in Handel studies.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Peter Brown and Suzana Ograjensek have put together a fine collection of essays on opera and Greek drama; some will appeal to a specialized readership; others have a very broad cultural interest.'
Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement