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“A Turandot filtered through a modern brain,” wrote Puccini, describing his plans to rework the eighteenth-century fable by Carlo Gozzi. According to Mosco Carner, Puccini’s last and supreme work is an advanced score which, with an orchestration...
By: Giacomo Puccini ISBN: 9780714544281 |
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Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is really about patriotism – an issue of burning importance to Verdi and his contemporaries. Music critic...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544069 |
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Written in 1927, Arabella is a portrait – partly romanticized, partly factual – of Habsburg Vienna in the 1860s. It is also a celebration of the profound importance of courage, and the ability to forgive in love. Our sympathies are not only drawn to...
By: Richard Strauss ISBN: 9780714544311 |
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This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E. Fay points out that the interpretation of the opera depends on which edition is used. Robert Oldani introduces the “Boris problem”: Pushkin’s play was not an obvious...
By: Modest Mussorgsky ISBN: 9780714544151 |
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Bizet describes himself as ‘pagan’, and Carmen has a savage Mediterranean beauty quite unique in music. The essays included in this guide suggest some reasons for its legendary theatrical appeal. Martin Cooper describes the traditional mixture of...
By: Georges Bizet ISBN: 9780714544175 |
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“It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond our power to describe.” Thus reads one of the first London reviews of Così fan tutte . Its enigmatic...
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ISBN: 9780714544236 |
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Das Rheingold , the opening of Wagner’s four-part The Ring of the Nibelung , stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the overall work, and the extraordinary musical language that...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544366 |
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Der Rosenkavalier has one of the longest and most exquisitely crafted texts of all opera. The depth and subtlety of the characterization can only be appreciated by those who have read it. Derrick Puffett notes that the sentimentality and parody of...
By: Richard Strauss ISBN: 9780714544120 |
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This opera has been described as “the longest single smile in the German language”. But Roland Matthews indicates that violence is not far beneath the surface of this portrait of medieval Nuremberg. Arnold Whittall’s analysis gives a bird’s-eye view...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544205 |
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“Things like this are written only for people who have good powers of endurance (so really for nobody!),” wrote Wagner about Die Walküre . Yet, as Geoffrey Skelton points out, the opera has enjoyed a separate popularity and existence from the...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544229 |
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