A season of opera : from Orpheus to Ariadne

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A season of opera : from Orpheus to Ariadne

M. Owen Lee

University of Toronto Press, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219), discography/videography (p. [221]-230), and index

Contents of Works

  • The birth of opera from the spirit of Orpheus
  • Du musst dein Leben ändern : Orfeo ed Euridice
  • The opera of all operas : Don Giovanni
  • The music of intuitive angels : The magic flute
  • Music to set the spirit free : Fidelio
  • Show business sense : L'elisir d'amore
  • Oh, sweet music of Donizetti! : Lucia di Lammermoor
  • Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore
  • The requisite miracle : La traviata
  • The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino
  • Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida
  • A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff
  • The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens
  • The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi
  • Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde
  • The making of a musical legend : Palestrina
  • The moon is like the moon : Salome
  • Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut
  • Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande
  • It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites
  • An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess
  • The music wrote itself : Oklahoma!
  • Hurry up please its [sic] time

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