Evenings at the opera : an exploration of the basic repertoire / Jeffrey Langford.
2011
782.109 L278e 2011
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Title
Evenings at the opera : an exploration of the basic repertoire / Jeffrey Langford.
Author
ISBN
9781574671872
1574671871
1574671871
Imprint
Milwaukee, WI : Amadeus Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xii, 376 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Call Number
782.109 L278e 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)666242572
(OCoLC)666242572
(OCoLC)666242572
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The evolution of comic opera. Mozart the serious comic : Don Giovanni ; Rossini's La Cenerentola : the renewal of comic opera ; Verdi's Falstaff : the final frontier
Bel canto and beyond. Rossini's Semiramide : the rebirth of Italian opera seria ; Bellini's I puritani : hybrid opera ; Verdi's Nabucco : the beginning of the end
Italian opera in revolution. Verdi's Rigoletto : new directions in Italian opera
Opera as autobiography. Beethoven's Fidelio : a case of self-salvation ; Berlioz's La damnation de Faust : when is opera not opera?
Shakespearean opera. Gounod's Roméo et Juliette : rewriting Shakespeare ; Verdi's Otello : adaptation and form in late-nineteenth-century opera
From literature to opera. Gounod's Faust : a hero's transformation ; Massenet vs. Puccini : two (of the three) Manons
Symphonic opera. Wagner, Strauss, and the question of operatic form
French grand opera. Verdi's Don Carlos : a foreigner's view ; Berlioz's Les Troyens : a misjudged masterpiece
Verismo opera. Bizet's Carmen : a sociological interpretation ; Puccini's Tosca : the not-so-"shabby little shocker"
Fairy-tale opera. Puccini's Turandot : the (un)solved riddle
The influence of Wagner. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande : the exorcism of Wagner
Approaches to twentieth-century opera. Looking ahead while looking back : Bartók, Berg, and Britten.
Bel canto and beyond. Rossini's Semiramide : the rebirth of Italian opera seria ; Bellini's I puritani : hybrid opera ; Verdi's Nabucco : the beginning of the end
Italian opera in revolution. Verdi's Rigoletto : new directions in Italian opera
Opera as autobiography. Beethoven's Fidelio : a case of self-salvation ; Berlioz's La damnation de Faust : when is opera not opera?
Shakespearean opera. Gounod's Roméo et Juliette : rewriting Shakespeare ; Verdi's Otello : adaptation and form in late-nineteenth-century opera
From literature to opera. Gounod's Faust : a hero's transformation ; Massenet vs. Puccini : two (of the three) Manons
Symphonic opera. Wagner, Strauss, and the question of operatic form
French grand opera. Verdi's Don Carlos : a foreigner's view ; Berlioz's Les Troyens : a misjudged masterpiece
Verismo opera. Bizet's Carmen : a sociological interpretation ; Puccini's Tosca : the not-so-"shabby little shocker"
Fairy-tale opera. Puccini's Turandot : the (un)solved riddle
The influence of Wagner. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande : the exorcism of Wagner
Approaches to twentieth-century opera. Looking ahead while looking back : Bartók, Berg, and Britten.
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