Selected essays on opera /

Selected essays on opera / / by Ulrich Weisstein; edited by Walter Bernhart.

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Ulrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies. Among his broad intermedial interests opera has always held a central place. For the first time this volume makes available...

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Superior document:Word and music studies ; 8
:
Weisstein, Ulrich.
TeilnehmendeR:
Bernhart, Walter.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Word and music studies ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (401 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Selected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein
  • The Libretto as Literature (1961)
  • Cocteau, Stravinsky, Brecht, and the Birth of Epic Opera (1962)
  • Introduction to The Essence of Opera (1964)
  • Reflections on a Golden Style: W.H. Auden's Theory of Opera (1970)
  • "Per porle in lista": Da Ponte/Leporello's Amorous Inventory and its Literary and Operatic Antecedents from Tirso de Molina to Giovanni Bertati (1981)
  • Educating Siegfried (1984)
  • (Pariser) Farce oder wienerische Maskerade? Die französischen Quellen des Rosenkavalier (1987)
  • The Little Word und: Tristan und Isolde as Verbal Construct (1987)
  • Benedetto Marcellos Il Teatro alla moda : Scherz, Satire, Parodie oder tiefere Bedeutung? (1989)
  • Von Ballhorn ins Bockshorn gejagt: Unwillkürliche Parodie und unfreiwillige Komik im Ambroise Thomas' Mignon (1989)
  • "Die letzte Häutung". Two German Künstleropern of the Twentieth Century: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1992)
  • Between Progress and Regression: The Text of Stravinsky's Opera The Rake's Progress in the Light of its Evolution (1992)
  • What is Romantic Opera? Toward a Musico-Literary Definition (1994)
  • Böse Menschen singen keine Arien : Prolegomena zu einer ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Opernzensur (1996)
  • Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index of Persons and Operas Mentioned in the Text.

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