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This is a double volume dedicated to two masterpieces by Benjamin Britten. While Peter Grimes established Britten as a composer of international standing, Gloriana , composed for the coronation of Elizabeth II, has never enjoyed a comparable fame....
By: Benjamin Britten ISBN: 9780714544250 |
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“The subject cannot fail!” exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544182 |
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Richard Strauss turned his genius to opera at the turn of the twentieth century, and this guide contains the texts and introductions to his first two masterpieces in what was, for him, a new genre. Despite obvious similarities – both operas...
By: Richard Strauss ISBN: 9780714544380 |
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Wagner wanted Siegfried , the third music drama in The Ring of the Nibelung , to be the most popular of the cycle. Despite its many beautiful and dramatic scenes, it has not fulfilled its composer’s aspiration: Professor Ulrich Weisstein examines...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544298 |
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What can explain Wagner’s obsession with Tannhäuser , which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? Describing of the struggle of a man torn between erotic love and spiritual fulfilment, the opera contains...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544403 |
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Although it is impossible to trace any one particular theme running through the operas of Michael Tippett, the libretti of his four operas are fascinating to compare. The dense allusions of The Midsummer Marriage (1955), here annotated, gave way to...
By: Michael Tippett ISBN: 9780714544304 |
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Monteverdi’s 1607 version of the legend of Orpheus is arguably the first masterpiece of opera. Composed for the court of Mantua, where Monteverdi was employed, it is very different from his two other surviving operas, which he wrote more than thirty...
By: Claudio Monteverdi ISBN: 9780714544465 |
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A product of Hungary’s political ferment at the start of the twentieth century, Béla Bartók’s works combine determination to participate in Western art movements was coupled with an enthusiasm for the folk traditions of a disappearing world. In this...
By: Béla Bartók ISBN: 9780714544458 |
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‘A Landmark in Musical History’ is John Luke Rose’s title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a short note on the poem itself by Martin Swales and Timothy McFarland...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544106 |
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“See how the drama is turned into laughter,” comment the chorus, as they witness the destruction of a marriage and a friendship. Here Pierluigi Petrobelli shows how the irony woven into the tragedy results from the meeting of French and Italian...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544410 |
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