Opera

Name: Opera
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ISBN: 9780521746472

ISBN-10: 0521746477

ISBN-13: 9780521746472

Edition: 2011

Authors: Robert Cannon

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Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 450
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.61" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.958
Language: English



Introduction






Pre-operatic forms



First operatic forms: Peri, Caccini, Monteverdi, Cavalli, Keiser



Formalization



Reform ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ the reintegration of elements



Comedy and the 'real world'



'Authentic' performance






Romanticism and romantic opera in Germany



Opera in nineteenth-century Italy



Grand OpÃ©ra and the visual language of opera



The Wagnerian revolution



Nationalists: vernacular language and music



The role of the singer






The turn of the century and the crisis in opera



First modernism: symbolist and expressionist opera



The dramaturgy of opera: libretto ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ words and structure



Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic



Radical narratives



Directors and the direction of opera


Appendices



Motifs from Der Ring



The development of singing voices



The development of lyric theatre alternatives to 'opera'



Some major operas, artistic and political events of the twentieth century


Glossary of terms


Bibliography