Opera : a Penguin anthology
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Opera : a Penguin anthology
Penguin, 1996
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Originally published: London: Viking, 1995
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology on opera contains material from a broad range of sources including information from the numerous biographies and autobiographies of men and women whose lives were touched by opera, such as Strauss, Van Hoffman and Cosima Wagner.
Table of Contents
- Opera in Italy
- opera outside Italy. Singers: 18th-century singers
- pasta and Malibran
- early-19th-century singers
- late-19th-century singers
- three divas - Patti, Melba, Tetrazzini
- Caruso
- Chaliapin
- a clutch of tenors
- Lotte Lehmann
- Maria Callas
- some singers of the 20th century
- the art of singing. Composers: operatic composers
- Mozart
- Rossini
- Wagner
- Wagner at Bayreuth
- Verdi
- Puccini
- Richard Strauss. On stage: opera directors
- auditions
- rehearsal
- performances
- audiences
- opera and money. Issues in opera: the nature of opera
- opera and ideology
- words v. music
- anti-opera
- Libretti and translations. Opera in fiction: opera in fiction.
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