Παρουσίαση
Not your usual opera guide, this work forgoes the usual synopses of plots, biographical particulars, and anecdotes to concentrate instead on fundamental elements of opera examining it from many angles. With a discussion of such topics as those who created it - the musicians, writers, and artists - the outcome of their work, commissioners and producers, why opera developed as it did, why particular styles became popular, when operas were given and in what environment or political climate, the reaction of audiences, and the span of success. Opera is viewed, as much as possible, from a perspective of what audiences at the time would have expected and enjoyed. All aspects of opera are explained in language appropriate for those with varying levels of knowledge about the art form.Each chapter features a particularly innovative period of operatic history and each focuses on representative and successful works of that era and concludes with a short selection of other works of the same period and style for further listening or viewing. Plates of little-known engravings - seven of Baroque stage productions - and a glossary, bibliography, and index round out the work. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
List of Table and PlatesPreface
Introduction: About Opera
1. Before Opera
2. The First Operas
3. Opera in Mantua
4. Roman Opera: Serious and Comic
5. Opera in Venice
6. From Venice to France
7. Opera Abroad and Operatic Development in Italy
8. The Late Baroque
9. Comic Opera
10. Embers of Opera Seria
11. Mozart and Da Ponte
12. Rossini
13. Romanticism: From France to Germany
14. Italian Bel Canto, 1830-1835
15. Romanticism with Patriotic Feeling
16. Grand Op?ra and Counterbalance
17. Romantic Wagner
18. Italian Gloom and Despair
19. France after the Midcentury
20. Grand Opera and Music Drama
21. Oriental Influence
22. Realism and the Giovane Scuola
23. Clinging to Melody
24. Discordant Times
25. A reflection of One's Century
26. At the Millennium
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography: Further Reading
Bibliography: Text Citations
Index
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