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Preface | |
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The Medici Wedding Festivities of 1589 (de' Rossi) | |
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Pietro Bardi on the Birth of Opera | |
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L'Euridice, the Second Opera (Buonarroti, Rinuccini, Peri, Caccini) | |
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Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Guidotti, Cavalieri) | |
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Monteverdi Criticizes a Libretto | |
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Sant'Alessio at the Barberini Palace, Rome (Rospigliosi, Bouchard) | |
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Opera Comes to Venice and Goes Public (Ivanovich) | |
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Lully is Granted a Monopoly on Opera in French (Colbert, Lully) | |
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The Grand Siecle Absorbs the Tragedie en musique (Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau) | |
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Saint-Evremond's Views on Opera | |
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The First English Operas (Dryden) | |
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Handel's Rinaldo at the Haymarket Theatre (Hill, G. Rossi, Addison, Steele) | |
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Pier Jacopo Martello on Opera (1715) | |
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The President de Bosses in Italy (1739) | |
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Metastasio on Setting Dramatic Recitative to Music | |
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From Rousseau's Confessions | |
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The War of the Buffoons (d'Holbach) | |
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Interlude: A Traveling Company (G. Gozzi) | |
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Operatic Reform in Vienna: Gluck and Calzabigi | |
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Gluck in Paris (Meister) | |
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Mozart at Work on Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail | |
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Gretry's Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Meister, Gretry) | |
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The Making of Le nozze di Figaro (L. and W.A. Mozart, Da Ponte) | |
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Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni | |
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Fidelio in 1806 (Rockel) | |
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Berlioz's Estimate of Spontini | |
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E. T. A. Hoffman on ""Music Drama That Springs from the Heart"" | |
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The First Performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Righetti-Giorgi) | |
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Der Freischutz: A German Triumph (M. M. von Weber) | |
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Parisian Grand Opera: Auber's La Muette de Portici as Seen by Wagner | |
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Interlude: Madame Pasta (Hunt) | |
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Verdi's Own Story of How Nabucco Was Composed | |
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Verdi's Operatic Style Analyzed by a Contemporary (Basevi) | |
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Wagner on the Evolution of his Style | |
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Wagner's Theory of Drama | |
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Divergent Reactions to Boris Godunov (Laroche, Stasov) | |
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Tchaikovsky on Eugene Onegin | |
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Nietzsche vs. Wagner | |
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Verdi's Otello (Boito, Verdi, Morelli) | |
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Interlude: Verdi and Wagner in Vienna (J. Sulzer) | |
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Verismo (Verga) | |
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Four Men at Work on La boheme (Illica, Puccini, Ricordi, Giacosa) | |
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Pelleas et Melisande (Mauclair, journalist, Debussy) | |
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Strauss and Hofmannsthal Work on Der Rosenkavalier | |
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Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Ballasz) | |
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Busoni and the Reinstatement of Disbelief | |
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In Defense of Kat'a Kabanova (Stuart) | |
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Alban Berg on Wozzeck | |
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Brecht on ""Epic Opera"" | |
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Shostakovich and the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Debacle (Shostakovich, Pravda) | |
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Interlude: An Italian Claque (Montale) | |
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Peter Grimes in Postwar London (Edm. Wilson) | |
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Stravinsky, Auden, and The Rake's Progress | |
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A First Reaction to Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites (Mila) | |
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Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass (Page) | |
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John Adams on Nixon in China | |
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Index | |