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Title

Selected essays on opera / by Ulrich Weisstein ; edited by Walter Bernhart.

Author

Weisstein, Ulrich.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bernhart, Walter
• Bernhart, Walter.

Description

viii, 383 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Ulrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies. Among his broad intermedial interests opera has always held a central place. For the first time this volume makes available his major contributions to opera criticism in compact form, thus meeting a serious scholarly demand." "The necessarily stringent selection of essays from Professor Weisstein's large output on opera, reflecting fifty years of involvement with the genre, is primarily governed by the wish to present texts that are representative of their author's work and, at the same time, are unlikely to be readily available through other channels. The fourteen essays collected are arranged in chronological order, some of them showing Ulrich Weisstein as an initiator of librettology, others tracing adaptive processes extending from textual sources to final operas, or investigating writer/composer collaborations."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Word and music studies ; 8

Uniform Title

Word and music studies ; 8.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Geschichte
• Opera

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• 5 of the 14 essays in German.

Contents

The libretto as literature (1961) -- Cocteau, Stravinsky, Brecht, and the birth of epic opera (1962) -- Introduction to The essence of opera (1964) -- Reflections on a golden style: W.H. Auden's theory of opera (1970) -- "Per porle in lista": Da Ponte/Leporello's amorous inventory and its literary and operatic antecedents from Tirso de Molina to Giovanni Bertati (1981) -- Educating Siegfried (1984) -- (Pariser) Farce oder wienerische Maskerade? Die französischen Quellen des Rosenkavalier (1987) -- The little word und: Tristan und Isolde as verbal construct (1987) -- Benedetto Marcellos Il Teatro alla moda: Scherz, Satire, Parodie oder tiefere Bedeutung? (1989) -- Von Ballhorn ins Bockshorn gejagt: Unwillkürliche Parodie und unfreiwillige Komik im Ambroise Thomas' Mignon (1989) -- "Die letzte Häutung". Two German Künstleropern of the Twentieth Century: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1992) -- Between progress and regression: the text of Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress in the light of its evolution (1992) -- What is Romantic opera? Toward a musico-literary definition (1994) -- Böse Menschen singen keine Arien: Prolegomena zu einer ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Opernzensur (1996).

ISBN

• 904202111X
• 9789042021112

OCLC

• 78605006
• SCSB-10108297

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library