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|a Langford, Jeffrey Alan.
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|a Evenings at the opera :
|b an exploration of the basic repertoire /
|c Jeffrey Langford.
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|a Milwaukee, WI :
|b Amadeus Press,
|c 2011.
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|a xii, 376 p., [8] p. of plates :
|b ill. (some col.), music ;
|c 23 cm.
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|a Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-367) and index.
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|a The evolution of comic opera. Mozart the serious comic : Don Giovanni ; Rossini's La Cenerentola : the renewal of comic opera ; Verdi's Falstaff : the final frontier -- Bel canto and beyond. Rossini's Semiramide : the rebirth of Italian opera seria ; Bellini's I puritani : hybrid opera ; Verdi's Nabucco : the beginning of the end -- Italian opera in revolution. Verdi's Rigoletto : new directions in Italian opera -- Opera as autobiography. Beethoven's Fidelio : a case of self-salvation ; Berlioz's La damnation de Faust : when is opera not opera? -- Shakespearean opera. Gounod's Roméo et Juliette : rewriting Shakespeare ; Verdi's Otello : adaptation and form in late-nineteenth-century opera -- From literature to opera. Gounod's Faust : a hero's transformation ; Massenet vs. Puccini : two (of the three) Manons -- Symphonic opera. Wagner, Strauss, and the question of operatic form -- French grand opera. Verdi's Don Carlos : a foreigner's view ; Berlioz's Les Troyens : a misjudged masterpiece -- Verismo opera. Bizet's Carmen : a sociological interpretation ; Puccini's Tosca : the not-so-"shabby little shocker" -- Fairy-tale opera. Puccini's Turandot : the (un)solved riddle -- The influence of Wagner. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande : the exorcism of Wagner -- Approaches to twentieth-century opera. Looking ahead while looking back : Bartók, Berg, and Britten.
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