A mad love an introduction to opera
There are few art forms as visceral and emotional as opera--and few that are as daunting for newcomers. A Mad Love offers a spirited and indispensable tour of opera's eclectic past and present, beginning with Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, generally considered the first successful opera, through clas...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- From Gods to mortals : on Monteverdi and the birth of opera, French baroque opera, Handel, and Mozart
- The beautiful song of Italian opera : on the bel canto operas of Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti and rise of the tenor
- Giants of the nineteenth century : on Wagner, Verdi, and conductors
- Realism in an unrealistic medium : on verismo, Puccini, and Slavic opera
- Fin De Siécle dissonance to midcentury melody : on Strauss, Berg, Shostakovich, Gershwin, Britten, and opera in translation
- Orpheus in the twenty-first century : on contemporary opera, from Philip Glass to Kaija Saariaho
- Ape costumes or period costumes? : on staging opera in the twenty-first century
- Epilogue.
