A Season of Opera : : From Orpheus to Ariadne / / M. Owen Lee.

Father Owen Lee is internationally known for his intermission commentaries featured during the Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. A Season of Opera: From Orpheus to Ariadne gathers together for the first time Father Lee's best broadcast and cassette com...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2000
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Birth of Opera from the Spirit of Orpheus
  • 2. Du Musst dein Leben Ändern: Orfeo ed Euridice
  • 3. The Opera of All Operas: Don Giovanni
  • 4. The Music of Intuitive Angels: The Magic Flute
  • 5. Music to Set the Spirit Free: Fidelio
  • 6. Show Business Sense: L'Elisir d'Amore
  • 7. Oh, Sweet Music of Donizetti! Lucia di Lammermoor
  • 8. Elemental, Furious, Wholly True: Il Trovatore
  • 9. The Requisite Miracle: La Traviata
  • 10. The Whole Checkered Play of Life: La Forza del Destino
  • 11. Melt Egypt into Nile: Aida
  • 12. A Figure as Old as Comedy: Falstaff
  • 13. The Exasperated Eagle and the Stoic Saint: Les Troyens
  • 14. The Sins of Wagner's Youth: Rienzi
  • 15. Long Day's Journey into Night: Tristan and Isolde
  • 16. The Making of a Musical Legend: Palestrina
  • 17. The Moon Is Like the Moon: Salome
  • 18. Genius and Morbidezza: Manon Lescaut
  • 19. Mists, Sails, Sounds, and Impressions: Pelléas et Mélisande
  • 20. It Is Your Turn to Speak: Dialogues des Carmélites
  • 21. An Opera Made of Songs: Porgy and Bess
  • 22. The Music Wrote Itself: Oklahoma!
  • 23. Hurry Up Please its Time
  • Further Reading
  • Recordings and Videos
  • Index