Literature as opera
By: Gary Schmidgall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Subjects: Opera; Music and literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An opening perspective.; title: George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina.; title: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro.; title: Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor.; title: Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini.; title: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth.; title: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin.; title: Richard Strauss: Salome.; title: Alban Berg: Wozzeck.; title: Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice.; title: Afterword: The crisis of modern opera.; title: Literature as opera, a symposium.