Format:
Book
Title:
A history of opera / Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker.
Author:
Abbate, Carolyn.
Call Number:
782.1 ABBATE
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012.
Description:
xix, 603 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Opera.
Other Author:
Parker, Roger, 1951-
Contents:
Opera's first centennial -- Opera seria -- Discipline -- Opera buffa and Mozart's line of beauty -- Singing and speaking before 1800 -- The German problem -- Rossini and transition -- The tenor comes of age -- Young Verdi -- Grand opera -- Young Wagner -- OpeĢra comique, the crucible -- Old Wagner -- Verdi : older still -- Realism and clamour -- Turning point -- Modern speech -- We are alone in the forest.
ISBN:
9780393057218 (hbk.)
0393057216 (hbk.)