“‘Un nobilissimo e sottilissimo ingegno’: Tracce di balli nelle opere del Teatro Colonna (1683-1688).”

De Lucca, Valeria (2021) “‘Un nobilissimo e sottilissimo ingegno’: Tracce di balli nelle opere del Teatro Colonna (1683-1688).”. In, Goulet, Anne-Madeleine, Domínguez Rodríguez, José María and Oriol, Élodie (eds.) Spectacles et performances artistiques à Rome (1644-1740). Une analyse historique àpartir des archives familiales de l'aristocratie. Rome. École Française de Rome, 223 -238.

Abstract

Still today, theatrical balli, a fundamental element of the dramma per musica in early modern Rome, are some of the most ephemeral and difficult to reconstruct forms of performance. In fact, a scholar seeking to analyse the performance of balli must often tackle the methodological challenge posed by the almost complete absence not only of evidence for choreography but also of musical scores. Through the cross-referencing of material traces of balli in the Colonna family archives, in contemporary treatises, and in opera librettos, this essay recovers and recreates aspects—previously considered to be lost—of the performance of balli in the operas produced in the Colonna family’s theatre from 1683 to 1688.

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