Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism (iconography, ekphrasis, imagination) in late seventeenth-century Italian opera. Includes close musical and textual analysis of Alessandro Scarlatti's opera La Statira (Rome, 1690) and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's opera La forza della virtu (Venice, 1693).
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