The Italian Opera Libretto and Dubrovnik Theatre

Nowhere in Europe the Italian opera libretto has had such a direct and decisive influence on original national drama production as it did in Dubrovnik during the 17th and 18th century. In the "e;Golden Age of Croatian Literature"e;, a hybrid drama genre was created. For more than a century, authors of this genre looked attentively at the most important trends of Italian opera production ...