A History of Opera (Inbunden)
avCarolyn Abbate, Roger Parker
ISBN: 9780393057218 - UTGIVEN: 201211A History of Opera, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation, provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel, and Mozart to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten. There are lively di[...]
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Häftad)
avCarolyn Abbate
ISBN: 9780521437387 - UTGIVEN: 201103Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of its basic nexus of longing and death has fascinated audiences since its first performance in 1865. At the same time, its advanced harmonic language, [...]
Unsung Voices: Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century (Övrig)
avCarolyn Abbate
ISBN: 9780691026084 - UTGIVEN: 1996-04-01Who 'speaks' to us in "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", in Wagner's operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interpretations as she explores the voices projected by music. The nineteenth-century metaphor of music t[...]
In Search of Opera (Pocket)
avCarolyn Abbate
ISBN: 9780691117317 - UTGIVEN: 2003-08In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music's realization by musicians and singers, she argues that operatic works are indelibly bound to the contingency of liv[...]
A History of Opera (Inbunden)
avRoger Parker, Carolyn Abbate
ISBN: 9780713996333 - UTGIVEN: 201211This definitive work tells the entire story of the world's most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume "History of Opera" for more than a generation provokes [...]
