Reading Opera /

Reading Opera / / ed. by Arthur Groos, Roger Parker.

"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradit...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Abbate, Carolyn,
Ashbrook, William,
Bergeron, Katherine,
Emerson, Caryl,
Furman, Nelly,
Gilman, Sander L.,
Groos, Arthur,
Hepokoski, James A.,
Maehder, Jurgen,
Parker, Roger,
Robinson, Paul,
Wintle, Christopher,
Youens, Susan,
HerausgeberIn:
Groos, Arthur,
Parker, Roger,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in Opera ; 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (364 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto
  • Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto
  • An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande
  • The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini
  • Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey
  • The Languages of Love in Carmen
  • How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo")
  • The Numinous in Gotterdammerung
  • Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina
  • Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text
  • On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass
  • Strauss and the Pervert
  • A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera
  • INDEX

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