The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre (17th and 18th Century)

Slobodan Prosperov Novak taught at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, at Sapienza University in Rome and at Yale University, and today is a professor at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. He is the author of more than 30 books; his most important one is History of Croatian Literature (1996–99). Viktoria Franic Tomic taught at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split, at the Academy of Art in Split, and is now professor at the Croatian Studies Centre, University of Zagreb. She is the author of several books, mostly about ancient Croatian Literature, and Dubrovnik cultural history. Ennio Stipcevic is a research fellow and science adviser at the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was also a lecturer at the Zagreb Academy of Music (1994-2015). He spent the academic year of 1996/97 as a Fulbright visiting scholar at Yale University and is the author of 15 books, including Renaissance Music and Culture in Croatia (2016).

Viktoria Franic Tomic, 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 Petric
(Francesco Patrizi) to Pasko Primovic and Ivan Gundulic

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

3. The dramatists Vice Pucic, Šiško Gundulic,
Ivan Gucetic Jr., Jaketa Palmotic and the historian
of the Venetian libretto Kristoforo Ivanovic

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

5. Antun Gledevic and Ivan Šiško Gundulic, 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 Stipcevic
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

6. Epilogue


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