Understanding Italian opera
By: Tim Carter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780190247942
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Opera
Description: Renowned music scholar Tim Carter unravels opera's many layers to offer a thorough introduction to Italian opera from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Walking readers through the relationship between music and poetry that lies at the heart of any opera, Carter  offers explorations of five of the most enduring and emblematic Italian operas.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is opera?; title: Giovanni Francesco Busenello and Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea (Venice, 1643); title: Nicola Francesco Haym and George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto (London, 1724); title: Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (Vienna, 1786); title: Francesco Maria Piave and Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto (Venice, 1851); title: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, and Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème (Turin, 1896).