Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging

Donington, Robert

ISBN 10: 0300056613 / ISBN 13: 9780300056617

Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1992

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging
• Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven & London
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0300056613
• ISBN-13: 9780300056617
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In this book the late musicologist, performer, and writer Robert Donington discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. His analysis includes scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers