Opera as Drama - Softcover

Kerman, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520062744 ISBN 13: 9780520062740

Verlag: University of California Press, 1992

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Book by Kerman Joseph

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"Affords the serious reader and listener an absorbing encounter with a sensitive and superbly trained intelligence in the act of thinking about music and music criticism. . . . We come away remembering the sound of Kerman's prose voice, mellifluous, elegant, eminently civilized, beneath its cool control a ground bass of urgent feeling."--John Dizikes, "San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Reseña del editor:

"Throughout the history of opera, if not quite continuously, there have been some who have taken opera's dramatic potential seriously and others who have not. It seems to be the case that over the last thirty years Opera as Drama has helped keep the serious position alive. I hope it will continue to do so in this new edition."--From the foreword to the new edition Passionate, witty, brilliant, Opera as Drama, although published over thirty years ago, remains one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. For this new edition, the first since the book's original publication, the author has prepared a new foreword and provided emendations and additions that take into account some of the critical reaction to the book. He has also added a new chapter on operatic criticism. Updated yet still retaining the verve of the original, this new edition will be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520062744
• ISBN 13: 9780520062740
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240