Readying Cavalli's operas for the stage : manuscript, edition, production

Part I. Historiography of performances and editions. 1. Cavalli's operas : notes from a performing editor / Jane Glover ; 2. Editing Cavalli's operas : fashion or necessity? / Álvaro Torrente ; 3. After the premiere : the use of alternative sources in revivals of Cavalli's operas / Dinko Fabris

Part II. The manuscript scores. 4. Inside Cavalli's workshop : copies and copyists / Jennifer Williams Brown ; 5. Maria Cavalli : in the shadow of Francesco / Christine Jeanneret ; 6. Editing the performance score : toward a new understanding of seventeenth-century work concepts / Hendrik Schulze

Part III. Giasone : production and interpretation. 7. Behind the scenes of Cavalli's Giasone of 1649 / Beth L. Glixon ; 8. Spectacle and drama, or how many sets do we really need to perform seventeenth-century opera? / Jonathan Glixon ; 9. Hypsipyle, Medea, and the Ovidian imagination : taming the epic hero in Cavalli's Giasone / Wendy Hiller ; 10. Shakespeare and the golden fleece / Lawrence Manley

Part IV. Making librettos. 11. Plotting the myth of Giasone / Faustina Antonucci and Lorenzon Bianconi ; 12. Cicognini's Giasone : between music and theater / Anna Tedesco ; 13. "Ecco reciso alfine il groppo de l'inganno" : Giovanni Faustini's Euripo from the sources to the plot / Nicola Badolato

Part V. Cavalli beyond Venice. 14. Giasone : a source overview / Thomas Lin and Joseph Salem ; 15. Balbi's Febiarmonici and the first "road shows" of Giasone (1649-1653) / Nicola Michelassi ; 16. Orione in Milan : a Cavalli premiere / Davide Daolmi ; 17. "Ercole amante sconosciuto" : reconstructing the revised version of Cavalli's Parisian opera / Michael Klaper ; 18. Ercole amante, the first tragédie en musique? / Barbara Nestola