The Opera Book: Revised and Enlarged (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Edith B. Ordway

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330414977 ISBN 13 : 9781330414972

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

United States New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston and also half a dozen others whose premiere or first American production or American revival is announced for the coming season by one or another of the leading companies. Therefore, the book contains the larger number of the grand operas that remain in repertory throughout this country and Canada, as well as on the English and European stages. It includes the favorites among the older operas and several significant new ones, some of American composition. As they are the operas chosen by popular interest, the collection has a wide range in character, varying from lyric comedy to epic tragedy, from simple settings of allegorical or fairy tales to elaborate presentations of heroic musicdrama. Their musical rank is that of grand opera, that is, opera in which every word is sung and the recitative is generally accompanied by the orchestra. They are characterized as comic, tragic, fairy, allegorical, sentimental, or heroic, according to the prevailing interest, which is revealed as much by the music as by the plot. They are given in alphabetical order for convenient reference, except that the members of Wagner stetralogy are given under the title, The Ring of the Nibelung. The story of an opera, difficult as it is clearly and worthily to relate, is that central dramatic situation which.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330414977
• ISBN 13: 9781330414972
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 685
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