Robert L. Kendrick

In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century <I>sepolcri</I><I>&mdash;</I>sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday&mdash;Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ&rsquo;s Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the...