Opera: A Penguin Anthology by Stephen Brook
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Opera
Summary
This anthology on opera contains material from a broad range of sources including information from the numerous biographies and autobiographies of men and women whose lives were touched by opera, such as Strauss, Van Hoffman and Cosima Wagner.
Opera Summary
Table of Contents
Opera in Italy; opera outside Italy. Singers: 18th-century singers; pasta and Malibran; early-19th-century singers; late-19th-century singers; three divas - Patti, Melba, Tetrazzini; Caruso; Chaliapin; a clutch of tenors; Lotte Lehmann; Maria Callas; some singers of the 20th century; the art of singing. Composers: operatic composers; Mozart; Rossini; Wagner; Wagner at Bayreuth; Verdi; Puccini; Richard Strauss. On stage: opera directors; auditions; rehearsal; performances; audiences; opera and money. Issues in opera: the nature of opera; opera and ideology; words v. music; anti-opera; Libretti and translations. Opera in fiction: opera in fiction.
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GOR004194772
9780140260731
0140260730
Opera: A Penguin Anthology by Stephen Brook
Used - Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
19960926
544
N/A
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