Opera
by Riding, Alan
Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams.
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Opera / Alan Riding & Leslie Dunton-Downer.
Summary
Addressing seven languages, this definitive visual guide explores 400 years of music drama, from late-Renaissance Italy to the modern day; presents synopses of 160 operas from around the world; and discusses the lives of composers, from Monteverdi to Adams.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2006
- Edition:First American edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):DK Publishing
- Place of Publication:New York, New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:432 pages : : color illustrations ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0756622042, 9780756622046, 9780744056310, 0744056314
- oclc:ocm67773907
- LC Classification:ML1700
- Dewey Decimal:782.1
Table of Contents
Introducing opera -- What is opera? -- Librettos and librettists -- Staging opera -- Opera houses and festivals -- Idols of opera -- Monteverdi to Mozart, c. 1600-1800 -- Italian opera, c. 1800-1925 -- Germanic opera, c. 1800-1950 -- French opera, c. 1790-1900 -- Russian opera, c. 1830-1960 -- Czech opera, c.1860-1940 -- Modern opera, c. 1900-
Introducing opera -- What is opera? -- Librettos and librettists -- Staging opera -- Opera houses and festivals -- Idols of opera -- Monteverdi to Mozart, c. 1600-1800: Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo ; Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ; L'incoronazione di Poppea ; Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto ; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Alceste ; Atys ; Armide ; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Médée ; Henry Purcell: The fairy queen ; Dido and Aeneas ; Antonio Vivaldi: Orlando furioso ; Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La serva padrona ; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes galantes ; Platée ; Les Boréades ; George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo ; Giulio Cesare ; Tamerlano ; Rodelinda ; Orlando ; Alcina ; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice ; Iphigénie en Aulide ; Iphigénie en Tauride ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto ; Lucio Silla ; Il re pastore ; Idomeneo, re di …
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