Groos / Parker Reading Opera

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5959-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 364 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Opera

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Groos, Arthur

Parker, Roger L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii
INTRODUCTION, pg. 1
Appropriation in Wagner's Tristan Libretto, pg. 12
Boito and F.-V. Hugo's "Magnificent Translation": A Study in the Genesis of the Otello Libretto, pg. 34
An Unseen Player: Destiny in FelUas et Malisande, pg. 60
The Origins of Italian Literaturoper: Guglielmo Ratcliff, La figlia di Iorio, Parisina, and Francesca da Rimini, pg. 92
Erik's Dream and Tannhauser's Journey, pg. 129
The Languages of Love in Carmen, pg. 168
How to Avoid Believing (While Reading Iago's "Credo"), pg. 184
The Numinous in Gotterdammerung, pg. 200
Musorgsky's Libretti on Historical Themes: From the Two Borises to Khovanshchina, pg. 235
Boito and the 1868 Mefistofele Libretto as a Reform Text, pg. 268
On Reading Nineteenth-Century Opera: Verdi through the Looking-Glass, pg. 288
Strauss and the Pervert, pg. 306
A Deconstructive Postscript: Reading Libretti and Misreading Opera, pg. 328
INDEX, pg. 347