On opera
By: Bernard Williams
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Opera
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; title: Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending; title: Mozart's Figaro : a question of class?; title: Don Giovanni as an idea; title: Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte; title: Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom; title: Tristan and time; title: The elusiveness of pessimism :  responding to the Ring; title: Wagner and the transcendence of politics; title: L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande; title: Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini; title: Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson; title: The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart; title: Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy; title: Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production; title: Naïve and sentimental opera lovers