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With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel , a mixture of songs and dialogue, in which the spectacular effects and comedy fit naturally: they appeal today as much as they did when...
By: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ISBN: 9780714544076 |
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It used to be thought that Verdi miscalculated with this attempt at a “grand opera” in the French style. This guide demonstrates that Don Carlos was – and remains – an extraordinary achievement in melding two opposing visions of opera: the...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544472 |
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This tender, lyrical and passionate story of unrequited love holds a special place in Russian hearts. Tatyana’s letter scene and the Polonaise are two much loved glories of the score; each act is tightly constructed around an antithesis of public...
By: Pyotr Tchaikovsky ISBN: 9780714544397 |
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‘A lyric comedy unlike any other,’ wrote Verdi about his last opera. That the last work of a composer who was almost notorious for his preference for tragic and gloomy subjects should be a brilliant human comedy was and remains one of the wonders of...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544144 |
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Fidelio is Beethoven’s only opera, and the composition he is said to have loved the most. Elizabeth Forbes introduces the background and composition of the opera, written and revised over the years when Europe was caught up in the Napoleonic...
By: Ludwig Van Beethoven ISBN: 9780714544083 |
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Richard Wagner’s fifteen-hour operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung ends with this great music drama. Michael Tanner’s essay tackles the scale and meaning not just of this work but of Wagner’s whole undertaking, showing that Götterdämmerung is –...
By: Richard Wagner ISBN: 9780714544328 |
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Rossini was one of the major innovators in the field of opera. Moïse et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years after it had been composed for Naples; the result shows the evolution of his taste over a decade – from the neo-classical...
By: Gioachino Rossini ISBN: 9780714544373 |
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In this guide to Verdi’s popular opera, Marcello Conati of the Institute for Verdi Studies points out that, although audiences have always adored it, critics are only now coming to see that it represents a step forward, not back, from the...
By: Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 9780714544212 |
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This double volume contains two masterpieces of the Czech composer Leoš Janácek. Jenufa was the opera which finally brought him international recognition – and, with it, fame at home. Based on Ostrovsky's The Storm , Katya Kabanova contains...
By: Leoš Janáček ISBN: 9780714544342 |
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Mussorgsky’s last opera dramatizes the conspiracy of Prince Khovansky against Tsar Peter the Great, and the epic ends with the exile, murder and suicide of all the power groups of old Russia. When Musorgsky died in 1881, it was unfinished, and...
By: Modest Mussorgsky ISBN: 9780714544496 |
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