Literature as opera
Schmidgall, Gary,1945-
New York Oxford University Press
1977
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Opera
Music and literature.