Dressed to impress: the costumes for Antonio Cesti's Orontea in Rome (1661)
Based on a cross-examination of records of payments concerning the preparation of the costumes for a production of Antonio Cesti's Orontea in Rome in 1661 and of contemporary visual testimonies, this article investigates the fundamental role that costumes played in early modern opera. Relying o...
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