1st Edition

Made for the Stage: The Operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully

By Antonia L. Banducci Copyright 2018
290 Pages
by Routledge

An unrecognized key to understanding the operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully-that Lully conceived his operas as theatrical vehicles with the stage, its multiple aspects, and his Académie Royale de Musique repertory troupe's performers in mind-provides the central tenet of the book Made for the Stage: The Operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1673-1686). Over five chapters, this perspective expands our current... Read more

Biography

Antonia L. Banducci specializes in French baroque opera. For a facsimile edition of André Campra's tragédie en musique, Tancrède (Paris, 1702), she provided the scholarly contextualization and an extensive glossed list of rare prompt notes used in Madame de Pompadour’s 1748 court production of the opera. A former Fulbright scholar, she has published articles in Early Music, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Journal for Seventeenth-Century Music. She has presented papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and at international meetings, conferences, and seminars in Europe. She recently served a three-year term as Secretary of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.