Literature as opera
By: Gary Schmidgall.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Opera -- Dramaturgy.; Music and literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: An opening perspective.; value: George Frideric Handel: Orlando. Ariodante. Alcina.; value: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.; value: Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor.; value: Hector Berlioz.; value: Benvenuto Cellini.; value: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth.; value: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.; value: Richard Strauss: Salome.; value: Alban Berg: Wozzeck.; value: Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice.; value: Afterword: The crisis of modern opera.; value: Literature as opera; a symposium.