F

Fabio Massimo , 403 n

Fatiche d'Ercole per Deianira, Le , 191 ;

preface, 155 n, 179 , 180 , 243 .

See also Aureli; Pietro Andrea Ziani

Faustini, Giovanni, 3 , 123 n, 138 , 144 -45, 156 , 157 , 169 -75, 179 , 180 , 202 , 203 , 214 , 228 , 271 , 281 , 303 n, 311 n, 324 n;

borrowing by, 64 -65, 123 -24, 158 ;

and Cavalli, 170 , 201 , 217 -18, 240 n, 260 -67, 287 -89, 296 -98, 300 -301, 302 -3, 330 , 336 , 343 n, 345 , 351 ;

inventlone in, 172 , 173 , 175 , 182 , 194 , 261 ;

librettos used as models, 65 n, 173 , 325 , 388 ;

posthumous works, 174 , 182 , 184 , 189 ;

revivals, 185 n, 188 -90, 192 -95, 240 -41, 242 , 401 n.

See also Alciade; Calisto ; Cavalli; Doriclea; Egisto; Elena; Eritrea; Eupatra ;

Euripo ; Marco Faustini; Medea placata; Meraspe; Oristeo; Ormindo; Rosinda ; Teatro S. Apollinare; Teatro S. Cassiano; La virtù de' strali d'Amore ; Pietro Andrea Ziani

Faustini, Marco, 31 , 175 , 181 -84, 185 , 191 n, 196 , 198 , 203 n, 217 n, 220 , 222 n;

and Cavalli, 187 -88, 202 , 210 , 222 ;

and Giovanni Faustini, 175 , 181 , 183 -84, 191 -95;

and singers, 215 n, 216 , 223 n, 224 -26, 233 , 235 , 238 -42;

and Pietro Andrea Ziani, 212 -15, 219 , 223 .

See also Giovanni Faustini; Grimani family; Teatro S. Apollinare; Teatro S. Cassiano; Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo

Favola pastorale , 15

Favorito del principe, Il , 233 n.

See also Laurenzi; Renzi

Febiarmonici. See Accademici Febiarmonici

Feminism as a theme in Venetian opera, 390

Ferrari, Benedetto, 280 n;

as composer, 28 , 75 n, 200 , 219 , 337 n;

as composer and librettist, 72 , 75 , 78 , 79 , 82 , 122 , 199 , 200 , 202 , 203 , 403 ;

as impresario, 14 -15, 65 , 73 , 79 n, 80 , 81 , 90 , 94 n, 180 ;

librettos by, 63 , 70 -71, 72 , 73 , 108 n, 140 , 150 n, 155 , 161 , 172 n, 201 , 237 , 248 -49, 250 , 403 ;

and Monteverdi, 18 , 336 , 385 n;

portrait of, 76 .

See also Andromeda; Armida; La maga fulminata ; Francesco Manelli; Il pastor regio; Il principe giardiniero ; Teatro S. Cassiano

Finta pazza, La , 2 n, 53 n, 95 n, 102 -3, 152 n, 155 , 159 ;

disguise in, 120 -21;

and the Febiarmonici, 81 n, 110 -12, 227 n;

libretto, 94 n, 97 , 98 n, 325 , 339 , 389 ;

madness in, 114 -15, 121 -24, 228 , 350 -52, 374 n;

"music" in, 117 -21;

political function of, 125 -26, 132 , 139 ;

preface, 56 , 94 ;

and Renzi, 228 -30, 234 ;

scenography, 103 n, 107 ;

and the Teatro Novissimo, 88 n, 90 -91, 97 -98, 99 , 106 , 110 ;

text and music, 117 , 253 -55, 260 n, 285 , 289 n, 336 n, 337 n, 352 -54, 366 n, 372 -73, 389 , 466-67, 496 , 597 -604, 634 -36 ;

theatricality in, 112 -16, 124 , 125 .

See also Accademia degli Incogniti; Renzi; Sacrati; Giulio Strozzi; Teatro Novissimo

Finta pazza Licori, La , 94 n, 221 , 339 n, 353 n, 356 n;

collaboration in, 91 n, 200 , 233 , 347 -50.

See also Conventions; Madness; Claudio Monteverdi; Giulio Strozzi

Finta savia, La , 53 n, 78 n, 103 , 132 , 155 , 230 n, 233 -34;

as pasticcio, 102 , 208 , 219 ;

and spoken performance, 41 n, 207 n, 208 .

See also Ferrari; Laurenzi; Leardini; Renzi; Giulio Strozzi

Flora, La , 332 n.

See also Sartorio

Florence, 28 ;

opera in, 9 , 10 , 35 , 39 , 54 , 59 , 245 -48, 387 , 404

Follino, Federico, 10 -11, 362 n, 377 n, 384 n.

See also Arianna ; Mantua, opera in; Claudio Monteverdi

Fontei, Nicolò, 370 n

Form, closed: in Aureli and Minato, 178 ;

in Badoaro, 250 -53;

in Busenello, 255 -56, 257 -60, 261 ;

chronological increase in, 281 -83;

in Cicognini, 267 -75;

in Faustini, 173 -74, 260 -67;

in Ferrari, 248 -49;

in Florentine opera, 245 -47;

large-scale, 300 , 328 -29;

in Giulio Strozzi, 253 -55;

and verisimilitude, 117 -20, 245 -50.

See also Aria form: strophic

Formenti, Antonio, 224 n, 238 n

Fortune di Rodope e Damira, Le , 176 , 199 n, 234 , 402 n;

madness in, 124 , 233 , 358 , 360 ;

borrowing in, 157 n, 194 n;

text and music, 290 n, 294 -95, 309 n, 310 n, 311 -12, 314 , 331 , 379 -80, 506-7, 508 -9, 527 -31, 618 -20.

See also Aureli; Pietro Andrea Ziani

Forza della virtù, La , 397 n.

See also Opera: reform of

Franchi, Horatio, 216 n

Freschi, Domenico, 360

Frigimelica Roberti, Girolamo, 53 , 398 .

See also Arcadian academy; Opera: reform of

Fusconi, Giovanni Battista, 233 ;

and the Incogniti, 37 n, 103 n;

libretto prefaces, 47 , 145 , 155 n, 164 -65.

See also Accademia degli Incogniti; Amore innamorato; Argiope ; Renzi