The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan - Couverture rigide

Gilbert, William Schwenck

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019816503X ISBN 13 : 9780198165033

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Complete Annotate Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas which are still performed today, together with extensive annotations covering lost' songs, alterations and additions, obscure allusions, production points, and comments of interest. No other book provides such extensive commentary on the texts of the Savoy Operas nor provides such a source of innocent merriment to fans of the incomparable Victorian duo For each opera, there is a short introduction describing how the work came to be written, and giving its performance history. The text, including stage directions, is given on the right-hand page, and on the left (keyed in by line numbers) are notes. These give such information as the identity of a real-life person appearing or mentioned as a character, wordings that were different in the original edition (the one sent to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing), changes made for the first American performance, glosses on technical terms (eg. legal terms), literary references, cross-references to similar items in other Savoy operas, comments from first-night critics, and many other things Previously published by Penguin in two pap

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan provides the complete text of all the Gilbert & Sullivan operas which are still performed today, together with extensive annotations covering 'lost' songs, alterations and additions, obscure allusions, production points, and comments of interest. Each opera has an introduction which places it in its context, and a potted history of performances up to the present. No other book provides such extensive commentary on the texts of the Savoy Opera nor such a source of innocent merriment to fans of the incomparable Victorian duo. For each opera, there is a short introduction describing how the work came to be written, and giving its performance history. The text, including stage directions, is given on the right-hand page, and on the left (keyed in by line numbers) are notes. These give such information as the identity of a real-life person appearing or mentioned as a character, wordings that were different in the original edition (the one sent to the Lord Chamberlain for licensing), changes made for the first American performance, glosses on technical terms (e.g. legal terms), literary references, cross-references to similar items in other Savoy operas, comments from first-night critics, and many other things

Revue de presse

a beautifully produced door-stopper of a book. (Times Literary Supplement)

Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about G&S here comes another book with even more information to swell the cards of Trivial Pursuit. (Musical Opinion)

superbly edited by Ian Bradley with a succinct but informative introduction to each opera and copiously detailed notes explaining away the wildest fancies of Gilbert's wide-ranging erudition. (Classical Music)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019816503X
• ISBN 13: 9780198165033
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 1211
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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