Object's details: In the Rococo Glow of a Journey to Kythira. The Dramaturgic Antecedents to the Formation of the Concept of a Character in eighteenth-century Opera Seria as in Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel

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Title:
In the Rococo Glow of a Journey to Kythira. The Dramaturgic Antecedents to the Formation of the Concept of a Character in eighteenth-century Opera Seria as in Alcina by Georg Friedrich Händel
Creator:
Lisiecka, Katarzyna
Description:
This study presents the effect of the principles of dramatic poetics with regard to the way the concept of a character in eighteenth-century opera seria was formed. Similarly to the rococo message of Antoine Watteau’s paintings, this genre of opera was characterised by melancholic sophistication, the rule of the artificiality of the presented world and an allegorical plan of reference that assumed an intellectualised strategy of reception of a work of art. The article presents the path to the formation of a model eighteenth-century-opera character, from the transformation of the principles of Aristotelian poetics due to the influence of the rhetorical and scholastic tradition and later due to that of the poetics of French classicism. Händel’s Alcina serves as an example of the superiority of ethos and pathos, i.e. of the presentation of the affects and internal states of the titular character, over other elements of the drama. It is also used to explain to what extent the project of the rococo opera, artificial and challenging the probability rule, practises the mimetic postulates of artistics presentation.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
Prawa autorskie (c) 2022 Katarzyna Lisiecka
Date:
2022.09.30
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
Polish
Source:
Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 42 (2022): Postać w operze; 33-56;
Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 42 (2022): Postać w operze; 33-56;
2450-4947;
1233-8680
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/35692/30722
Subject:
tragedy;
poetics;
French classicism;
Aristotle;
opera seria;
Rococo;
Watteau;
Händel
Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/35692
Data provider:
Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM

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