Eikon eimi Immagine sono. Musiche e miti della Grecia classica tra immagine e immaginazione melodrammatica

The iconographic sources offered by terracottas from ancient Apulia allow to formulate reconstructive hypothesis of the practice of Greek ancient music. The value of those images it also involves an anthropological dimension which connects mythological imagination to music practiced and listened to. The myth, a fantasy social renewal in the creation of new connections and new senses can be declined in the imagination melodramatic and suggest for centuries the world of melodrama. This book, combining an iconographic and anthropological perspective on the history of the Opera, it is proposed to trace the many red threads that bind the European culture to that of Greek classicism. For the first time a synthesis is proposed on the operas that have as their subject the myth of Orpheus from 1600 to 2006.