: Gesine Manuwald
: Nero in Opera Librettos as Transformations of Ancient Sources
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110317510
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This book analyses the story of Nero and Octavia, as dramatically told in the pseudo-SenecanOctavia

Gesine Manuwald, University College London, UK.
Preface and acknowledgements5
1 Introduction9
1.1 Aims and outline9
1.2 Basis: the ancient sources and their reception in the Renaissance20
1.3 Background: features of 17th- and 18th-century opera29
1.4 Ubiquity: the artistic reception of the Nero story38
2 Nero in opera45
2.1 Busenello, L’incoronazione di Poppea (1642/43)45
2.2 Nero, Der Verzweifelte Und dadurch Das bedrengte Reich Befreyende (1663)54
2.3 Aureli, Claudio Cesare (1671/72)59
2.4 Corradi, Il Nerone / Nero (1678/79 / 1693)66
2.5 Nero, Der verzweiffelte Selbst-Mörder (1685)79
2.6 Contri, Agrippina in Baia (1687)85
2.7 Neri, L’ingresso alla gioventù di Claudio Nerone (1692)93
2.8 Noris, Nerone fatto Cesare (1692/93)103
2.9 Noris, Il ripudio d’Ottavia (1699)131
2.10 Silvani, La fortezza al cimento (1699)24
2.11 Feustking, Nero (1705)158
2.12 Feind, Octavia (1705)167
2.13 Grimani, Agrippina (1709)178
2.14 Piovene, Nerone / Nero (1721 / 1723)188
2.15 ‘Cimbaloni’, Nerone detronato (1725/26)201
2.16 Salfi, La congiura pisoniana (1797)208
2.17 Barbier, Néron (1879)216
2.18 Catelli, Nerone (1888)224
2.19 Boito, Nerone (1901 / 1924)233
2.20 Manén, Acté (1903 / 1908) Neró i Acté / Nero und Acté (1928)
2.21 Cain, Quo vadis? (1908/09)248
2.22 Targioni-Tozzetti, Nerone (1935)254
3 Nero in pieces of other performative genres263
3.1 Lohenstein, Agrippina (1665) - spoken drama263
3.2 Lohenstein, Epicharis (1665) - spoken drama269
3.3 Biancolelli, Il Nerone (1666) - spoken drama276
3.4 Boccaccio, Il Nerone (1675) - spoken drama285
3.5 Leva, Il Nerone (c. 1675-80) - spoken drama295
3.6 Lazarino, Gli sponsali per l’impero (1682) - spoken drama306
3.7 Alfieri, Ottavia (1783) - spoken drama317
3.8 Legouvé, Épicharis et Neron (1794) - spoken drama323
3.9 Panzieri, La morte di Nerone (1815/16) - ballet331
3.10 Cossa, Nerone (1871) - spoken drama337
3.11 Pallerini, Nerone (1877) - ballet347
4 Conclusions355
Appendices367
App. 1: frequency and distribution of key motifs and main characters367
App. 2: overview of all dramatic characters and their background374
Bibliography403