Evenings at the opera : an exploration of the basic repertoire /
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Milwaukee, WI :
Amadeus Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.