Opera
A History in Documents
ISBN13: 9780195116380ISBN10: 0195116380
Paperback, 352 pages
Jan 2002,
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352 pages;
27 illus. & musical examples;
6-1/8 x 9-1/4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-511638-0ISBN10: 0-19-511638-0
This fascinating journey through the history of opera features more than 100 selections, from opera's late Renaissance infancy through modern times.
Table of Contents
1.
The Medici Wedding Festivities of 1589 (de' Rossi)
2.
Pietro Bardi on the Birth of Opera
3.
L'Euridice, the Second Opera (Buonarroti, Rinuccini, Peri, Caccini)
4.
Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Guidotti, Cavalieri)
5.
Monteverdi Criticizes a Libretto
6.
Sant'Alessio at the Barberini Palace, Rome (Rospigliosi, Bouchard)
7.
Opera Comes to Venice and Goes Public (Ivanovich)
8.
Lully is Granted a Monopoly on Opera in French (Colbert, Lully)
9.
The Grand Siècle Absorbs the Tragédie en musique (Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau)
10.
Saint-Évremond's Views on Opera
11.
The First English Operas (Dryden)
12.
Handel's Rinaldo at the Haymarket Theatre (Hill, G. Rossi, Addison, Steele)
13.
Pier Jacopo Martello on Opera (1715)
14.
The Président de Bosses in Italy (1739)
15.
Metastasio on Setting Dramatic Recitative to Music
16.
From Rousseau's Confessions
17.
The War of the Buffoons (d'Holbach)
Interlude: A Traveling Company (G. Gozzi)
18.
Operatic Reform in Vienna: Gluck and Calzabigi
19.
Gluck in Paris (Meister)
20.
Mozart at Work on Die Entführung aus dem Serail
21.
Grétry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Meister, Grétry)
22.
The Making of Le nozze di Figaro (L. and W.A. Mozart, Da Ponte)
23.
Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni
24.
Fidelio in 1806 (Röckel)
25.
Berlioz's Estimate of Spontini
26.
E. T. A. Hoffman on "Music Drama That Springs from the Heart"
27.
The First Performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Righetti-Giorgi)
28.
Der Freischütz: A German Triumph (M. M. von Weber)
29.
Parisian Grand Opera: Auber's La Muette de Portici as Seen by Wagner
Interlude: Madame Pasta (Hunt)
30.
Verdi's Own Story of How Nabucco Was Composed
31.
Verdi's Operatic Style Analyzed by a Contemporary (Basevi)
32.
Wagner on the Evolution of his Style
33.
Wagner's Theory of Drama
34.
Divergent Reactions to Boris Godunov (Laroche, Stasov)
35.
Tchaikovsky on Eugene Onegin
36.
Nietzsche vs. Wagner
37.
Verdi's Otello (Boito, Verdi, Morelli)
Interlude: Verdi and Wagner in Vienna (J. Sulzer)
38.
Verismo (Verga)
39.
Four Men at Work on La bohème (Illica, Puccini, Ricordi, Giacosa)
40.
Pelléas et Mélisande (Mauclair, journalist, Debussy)
41.
Strauss and Hofmannsthal Work on Der Rosenkavalier
42.
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Ballász)
43.
Busoni and the Reinstatement of Disbelief
44.
In Defense of Kát'a Kabanová (Stuart)
45.
Alban Berg on Wozzeck
46.
Brecht on "Epic Opera"
47.
Shostakovich and the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Debacle (Shostakovich, Pravda)
Interlude: An Italian Claque (Montale)
48.
Peter Grimes in Postwar London (Edm. Wilson)
49.
Stravinsky, Auden, and The Rake's Progress
50.
A First Reaction to Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (Mila)
51.
Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass (Page)
52.
John Adams on Nixon in China
