On opera
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Published: |
Yale University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New Haven [Conn.] London |
Publication Dates: | c2006. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xix, 149 p.: ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0300089767 (alk. paper) 9780300089769 (alk. paper) |
Index Number: | J832 |
CLC: |
J832 J617.2 |
Call Number: | J832/W721 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naïve and sentimental opera lovers. |