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First nights at the opera
- Title
- First nights at the opera / Thomas Forrest Kelly.
- Author
- Kelly, Thomas Forrest.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 441 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premier performances of five influential operas."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Operas > First performances > Europe
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p.401-405), discography and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. George Frideric Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto -- Ch. 2. Wolfgang Amade Mozart, Il dissoluto punito, ossia Il Don Giovanni -- Ch. 3. Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots -- Ch. 4. Richard Wagner, Das Rheingold -- Ch. 5. Giuseppe Verdi, Otello -- Recommended recordings / Robert J. Dennis.
- ISBN
- 0300100442 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300115261 (pbk.)
- 9780300115260 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2004006932
- OCLC
- ocm54817588
- SCSB-9446070
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries