TY - JOUR
AU - PARSONS, JAMES
AB - Baroque Opera House' and an especially St Louis Ellen Harris discussed Ariosto's Orlando An interdisciplinary approach marked fascinating discussion by O. J. Rockroth furioso and its use in heroic, pastoral the two-day Baroque Festival Sympos- of Jacques Callofs intricate, mathemat- and comic 18th-century opera. ium presented by Washington Univer- icaly proportioned Primo intermedio. Andrew Porter delivered a statement sity in St Louis, Missouri, on 25-6 Lowell Lindgren offered a visually of what he considered essential for the entertaining lecture on operatic stage- February 1983. The organizers of the modern revival of Baroque opera. He conference divided the two days into craft in the time of Handel. He noted criticized recent approaches that suf- four sessions devoted to 'Culture and the loss of contemporary illustrations fered from 'director disease' and called Theatricality in Baroque Europe', 'Bar- relating to Handel's operas, but drew on scholars of music to 'dirty their oque Opera in Europe', 'Ariosto's Orlando attention to the composer's own direct- hands' in matters of practical perform- ions contained in the music. An audible furioso and its Influence' and 'Baroque ance. He claimed that our large opera Performance and Stagecraft, with 16 sigh of relief was heard when Lindgren houses 
TI - St Louis
JF - Early Music
DO - 10.1093/earlyj/11.3.423
DA - 1983-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/st-louis-oCHAOgi3Gp
SP - 423
EP - 424
VL - 11
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -