On opera
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
c2006.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10587842 |
Table of Contents:
- The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending
- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class?
- Don Giovanni as an idea
- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cosαi fan tutte
- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom
- Tristan and time
- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring
- Wagner and the transcendence of politics
- L'envers des destinβees : remarks on Debussy's Pellβeas et Mβelisande
- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini
- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson
- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart
- Janβaιcek's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy
- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production
- Naθive and sentimental opera lovers.