| Description |
xi, 431 pages : illustrations, music. ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
An opening perspective.--George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina.--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.--Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor.--Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini.--Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth.--Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.--Richard Strauss: Salome.--Alban Berg: Wozzeck.--Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice.--Afterword: The crisis of modern opera.--Literature as opera, a symposium. |
| Subject |
Opera -- Dramaturgy.
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Music and literature.
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| ISBN |
0195022130: $15.95 |
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