Evenings at the opera : an exploration of the basic repertoire / Jeffrey Langford.
Publication details: Milwaukee, WI : Amadeus Press, 2011.Description: xii, 376 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781574671872
- 1574671871
- 782.109 22
- MT95 .L354 2011
- 9,2
- LP 12200
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-370) and index.
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 RomeÌo 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 PelleÌas et MeÌlisande : the exorcism of Wagner -- Approaches to twentieth-century opera. Looking ahead while looking back : BartoÌk, Berg, and Britten.
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