On opera

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Main Author: Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  • Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending
  • Mozart's Figaro : a question of class?
  • Don Giovanni as an idea
  • Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte
  • Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom
  • Tristan and time
  • The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring
  • Wagner and the transcendence of politics
  • L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
  • Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini
  • Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson
  • The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart
  • Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy
  • Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production
  • Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.