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currentmusicology-4082	Zinar, Ruth	The Use of Greek Tragedy in the History of Opera	2019	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6872	329	64	In her study of the use of Alceste as subject matter in opera, Abert states that the Florentines would have thought it impossible to set a complete Greek drama to music.s It appears from Rinuccini's and Striggio's treatments of the Orpheus legend that one reason for the rejection of Greek tragedy as subject matter during a period in which the restoration of the ancient theater was an ideal was that Greek tragedies were, in fact, tragic. This article presents a survey of these changing preferences and prejudices as they pertain to the use of Greek tragedy as subject matter for opera,2 as well as a tentative chronological listing of the operas based on certain themes from Greek tragedy.	cache/currentmusicology-4082.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-4082.txt