Leonora's Last Act : : Essays in Verdian Discourse / / Roger Parker.
In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera chall...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Opera ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 4 halftones 2 line illus. 46 music exs. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. On Reaching the Beguiled Shore
- CHAPTER TWO. "Va pensiero" and the Insidious Mastery of Song
- CHAPTER THREE. "Insolite forme," or Basevi's Garden Path
- CHAPTER FOUR. Leonora's Last Act: La forza del destino
- CHAPTER FIVE. Falstaff and Verdi's Final Narratives
- CHAPTER SIX. Reading the livrets, or the Chimera of "Authentic" Staging
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Lina Kneels; Gilda Sings
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Leonora's Last Act: It trovatore