| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295). |
| Contents |
A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas : MacBeth, Otello, Falstaff -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. |
| Summary |
"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Opera.
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Aucoin, Matthew, 1990-. Eurydice.
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MUSIC / History & Criticism.
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Opera. (OCoLC)fst01046145
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
(OCoLC)fst01046195
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| Added Title |
Adventures in opera |
| ISBN |
9780374175382 (hardcover) |
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0374175381 (hardcover) |
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