Autor: Domenico Pietropaolo

These volumes are meant to serve as an introduction to the lives, works and poetics of Italy’s major playwrights of the Twentieth Century. The choices were made mainly on the historical relevance of …

The Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto houses a major collection of opera and oratorio librettos associated with performances across Europe. In addition to containing the text of musi …

The eighth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies is again an open issue and presents in its first section new research into the international impact of Futurism on artists and arti …

The eighth volume of the International Yearbook of Futurism Studies is again an open issue and presents in its first section new research into the international impact of Futurism on artists and arti …

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell’Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the st …

In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges —one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev’s source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevo …

What were the origins of commedia dell’arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during th …

What were the origins of commedia dell’arte and how did it evolve as a dramatic form over time and as it spread from Italy? How did its relationship to the ruling ideology of the day change during th …

The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various e …

The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various e …

Analysis of improvisation as a compositional practice in the Commedia dell’Arte and related traditions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Domenic Pietropaolo takes textual material from the st …