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Title

Opera : a history in documents / [compiled by] Piero Weiss.

Publication

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Weiss, Piero.

Description

xii, 338 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

Opera > Sources

Note

• Includes index.

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 Siecle Absorbs the Tragedie en musique (Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau) -- 10. Saint-Evremond'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 President de Brosses 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 Entfuhrung aus dem Serail -- 21. Gretry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Meister, Gretry) -- 22. The Making of Le nozze di Figaro (L. and W. A. Mozart, Da Ponte) -- 23. Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni -- 24. Fidelio in 1806 (Rockel) -- 25. Berlioz's Estimate of Spontini -- 26. E. T. A. Hoffmann on "Music Drama That Springs from the Heart" -- 27. The First Performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Righetti-Giorgi) -- 28. Der Freischutz: 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 boheme (Illica, Puccini, Ricordi, Giacosa) -- 40. Pelleas et Melisande (Mauclair, journalist, Debussy) -- 41. Strauss and Hofmannsthal Work on Der Rosenkavalier -- 42. Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Ballasz) -- 43. Busoni and the Reinstatement of Disbelief -- 44. In Defense of Kat'a Kabanova (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 Carmelites (Mila) -- 51. Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass (Page) --
• 52. John Adams on Nixon in China.

ISBN

• 0195116372
• 0195116380 (pbk.)

LCCN

2001032179

OCLC

• ocm46822421
• SCSB-14497662

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries