Evenings at the opera
Subtitle: an exploration of the basic repertoire
By: Jeffrey Langford
Publisher: Amadeus Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781574671872
Subjects: Analysis, appreciation; Operas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of comic opera. Mozart the serious comic : Don Giovanni ; Rossini's La Cenerentola : the renewal of comic opera ; Verdi's Falstaff : the final frontier; title: To bel canto and beyond. Rossini's Semiramide and the rebirth of Italian opera seria ; Bellini's I puritani : hybrid opera ; Verdi's Nabucco : the beginning of the end; title: Italian opera in revolution. Verdi's Rigoletto : new directions in Italian opera; title: Opera as autobiography. Beethoven's Fidelio : a case of self-salvation ; Berlioz's La damnation de Faust : when is opera not opera?; title: Shakespearean opera. Gounod's Romeo et Juliette : rewriting Shakespeare ; Verdi's Otello : adaptation and form in late-nineteenth-century opera; title: From literature to opera. Gounod's Faust : a hero's transformation ; Massenet vs. Puccini : two (of the three) Manons; title: Symphonic opera. Wagner, Strauss, and the question of operatic form; title: French grand opera. Verdi's Don Carlos : a foreigner's view ; Berlioz's Les Troyens : a misjudged masterpiece; title: Verismo opera. Bizet's Carmen : a sociological interpretation ; Puccini's Tosca : the not-so-"shabby little shocker"; title: Fairy-tale opera. Puccini's Turandot : the (un)solved riddle; title: The influence of Wagner. Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande : the exorcism of Wagner; title: Approaches to twentieth-century opera. Looking ahead while looking back : Bartok, Berg, and Britten.