Research Catalog

Title

A year at the Met / Patrick J. Smith.

Author

Smith, Patrick J., 1932-

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1983.

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Details

Description

x, 227 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• New York (N.Y.) > Metropolitan Opera
• Opera > New York (State) > New York
• Opera > United States
• Opera
• Oper
• Aufführung
• Kritik
• Opera > United States
• Geschichte (1981-1982)
• United States
• New York (State) > New York

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

First week: singing -- Second week: singing plus -- Third week: subscriptions, subscribers, and supporters -- Fourth week: down memory lane -- Fifth week: productions -- Sixth week: the comprimarios -- Seventh week: translation -- Eighth week: television -- Ninth week: the guild: resource or cash register? -- Tenth week: backstage -- Eleventh week: homage -- Twelfth week: the banyan tree -- Thirteenth week: authenticity and the blockbuster -- Fourteenth week: Christmas and "Hansel and Gretel" -- Fifteenth week: the archives -- Sixteenth week: in the gods -- Seventeenth week: the media and publicity -- Eighteenth week: the monument -- Nineteenth week: "Così fan tutte" and the big house -- Twentieth week: the fly in amber -- Twenty-first week: the chorus -- Twenty-second week: the genteel tradition -- Twenty-third week: they also serve who only stand and cheer -- Twenty-fourth week: second performances -- Twenty-fifth week: French opera and opera editions -- Twenty-sixth week: the orchestra -- Twenty-seventh week: the National Council and auditions -- Twenty-eighth week: fund raising -- Twenty-ninth week: the boards of directors -- Thirtieth week: finale, with penguins.

ISBN

• 0394517830
• 9780394517834

LCCN

82047829

OCLC

• ocm08627837
• 8627837
• SCSB-86223

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library