Literature as opera / Gary Schmidgall.
By: Schmidgall, Gary
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1977Description: xi, 431 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0195022130.Subject(s): Opera | Music and literatureDDC classification: 782.13 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 782.13 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00102462 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Explores the relationship between literature and opera by examining specific works of literature and showing how they were adapted into operas.
An opening perspective -- George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina --Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro -- Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor -- Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini --Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin -- Richard Strauss: Salome -- Alban Berg: Wozzeck -- Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice --Afterword: The crisis of modern opera -- Literature as opera, a symposium.