Opera in history : from Monteverdi to Cage /
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: Opera Books
- 1. Monteverdi, Caravaggio, Donne: Modernity and Early Baroque
- 2. Handel and the Poetics of Opera Seria
- 3. Rossini, Shelley, and Italy in 1819
- 4. Opera Among the Arts - Opera Among Institutions
- 5. Wagner's Ring as Nineteenth-Century Artifact
- 6. Opera / Orientalism / Otherness
- 7. Moses und Aron, Mahagonny,and Germany in 1930: Seventeen Entries
- 8. Regulated Anarchy: John Cage's Europeras 1 & 2 and the Aesthetics of Opera
- Finale: Opera Audiences.