On opera / Bernard Williams.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xix, 149 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  • Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending
  • Mozart's Figaro : a question of class?
  • Don Giovanni as an idea
  • Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cosi fan tutte
  • Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom
  • Tristan and time
  • The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring
  • Wagner and the transcendence of politics
  • L'envers des destinees : remarks on Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande
  • Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini
  • Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson
  • The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart
  • Janacek's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy
  • Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production
  • Naive and sentimental opera lovers.