Description |
xvii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part I : The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pre-operatic forms -- First operatic forms -- Formalisation -- Reform : the reintegration of elements -- Comedy and the 'real world' -- Authentic performance -- -- Part II : The nineteenth century. Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany -- Opera in nineteenth-century Italy -- Grand opéra and the visual language of opera -- The Wagnerian revolution -- Nationalists : vernacular language and music -- The role of the singer -- -- Part III : The twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The turn of the century and the crisis in opera -- First modernism : Symbolist and Expressionist opera -- The dramaturgy of opera : libretto - words and structures -- Narrative opera : realistic and non-realistic -- Radical narratives -- Directors and the direction of opera. |
ISBN |
9780521763028 (hardback)
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0521763029 (hardback)
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9780521746472 (paperback)
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0521746477 (paperback)
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