caa a22 4500 388066474 CHVBK 20180307125134.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954586700004973 doi S0954586700004973 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954586700004973 Verba Cynthia What recitatives owe to the airs: a look at the dialogue scene, Act I scene 2 of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie - version with airs [Elektronische Daten] [Cynthia Verba] The oft-cited observations of Italian librettist Carlo Goldoni as he described his first visit to the Académie Royale de Musique in 1763 are usually presented with an emphasis on what Goldoni missed. Accustomed as he was to eighteenth-century Italian opera, he could not hear a single aria in the French opera: "I waited for the aria ... The dancers appeared: I thought the act was over, not an aria. I spoke of this to my neighbor who scoffed at me and assured me that there had been six arias in the different scenes which I had just heard. How could this be? I am not deaf; the voice was always accompanied by instruments ... but I assumed it was all recitative.” Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/2(1999-07), 103-134 0954-5867 11:2<103 1999 11 OPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700004973 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700004973 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Verba Cynthia NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 11/2(1999-07), 103-134 0954-5867 11:2<103 1999 11 OPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 117192309 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge