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9780520246928

Opera As Drama

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520246928

  • ISBN10:

    0520246926

  • Edition: 50th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-12-14
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Passionate, witty, and brilliant, "Opera as Drama "has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, "Opera as Drama "continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Edition ix
Preface to the First Edition xvii
1. Prologue: Opera as Drama
1(17)
2. Orpheus: The Neoclassic Vision
18(21)
3. The Dark Ages
39(19)
4. Action and the Musical Continuity
58(22)
5. Mozart
80(29)
6. Verdi's Otello: Traditional Opera and the Image of Shakespeare
109(31)
7. Opera as Sung Play
140(18)
8. Opera as Symphonic Poem
158(20)
9. Retrenchment: Wozzeck and The Rake's Progress
178(25)
10. Drama and the Alternative 203(11)
11. Epilogue: On Operatic Criticism 214(15)
Index 229

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