Don Neville
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Visiting Fellow (Oxford 1996)
Past Editor, Studies in Music
Director:
Website Handbook for Metastasio Research
Research funding from SSHRCC
Current Lectures
Research Interests
History of opera (1600 to the present) and of musical theatre
(operetta to rock opera): the interrelationship of music, text and
drama, and the place of musical theatre in a variety of contexts,
including those of the work as first created (musical, theatrical,
literary, philosophical, psychological, socio-economic, historical,
intellectual, and cultural) and those of the work as recreated for
a modern audience (current narrative, reception and sociological
theories). Specialist in 18th-century opera, particularly Mozart
and Metastasian opera seria.
Representative
Publications
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"Metastasio: Poet and Preacher in Vienna" in Pietro
Metastasio (1698-1782), "uomo universale," ed.
Elizabeth Hilscher and Andrea Sommer-Mathis. Vienna:
University of Vienna, in press
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"Beneath the Surface." La clemenza di Tito. Program of
the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (January 2000): 36-42
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"Caterino Mazzolà" and "Pietro Metastasio" in Mozart
and His Operas, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan,
2000, 130-137
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"Opera or Oratorio?: Metastasio's Sacred opere
serie." Early Music 26/4 (November 1998):
596-607
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"Metastasio and the Image of Majesty in the Austro-Italian
Baroque" in Italian Culture In Northern Europe in the
Eighteenth Century, ed. Shearer West. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998, 140-158
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"Metastasio: Beyond the Stage in Vienna," Studies in
Music from the University Of Western Ontario 16
(1997): 87-109
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"Metastasio and Court Studies," The Court Historian
[London, U.K.] 1/3 (October 1996): 16-21
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"From Simplicity to Complexity in La clemenza di Tito" in
Wolfgang Amadè Mozart: Essays on his Life and
Music, ed. Stanley Sadie. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1995, 483-96
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"The rondò in Mozart's Late Operas," Mozart
Jahrbuch 1994. Salzburg: Internationale
Stiftung Mozarteum, 1995, 141-55
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"Semiramide in Vienna: beyond Metastasian Metastasis,"
Studien zur Musikwissenschaft 44 (1995): 113-29
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"From Myth to Libretto" in W.A. Mozart: Idomeneo,
ed. Julian Rushton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1993, 72-82
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"Mazzolà, Caterino", "Metastasio", "Rondò" in The New
Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan, 1992
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"Metastasio's Reinterpretation of Aristotle," Musica
Antiqua 9/1: Acta Musicologica Bydgoszcz (1991): 21-23
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"Cartesian Principles in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito" in
Music and Drama, vol. 2 of Studies in the
History of Music, New York: Broude., 1988, 97-123
See also the entry for "Metastasio" and each of his opera
seria works in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera,
4 vols., ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan, 1992
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