Selected essays on opera / by Ulrich Weisstein ; edited by Walter Bernhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisstein, Ulrich.

Contributor:

Bernhart, Walter.

Series:

Word and music studies ; 8.

Word and music studies ; 8

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Physical Description:

viii, 383 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Word and music studies : selected essays on opera

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

5 of the 14 essays in German.

Contents:

The libretto as literature (1961)

Cocteau, Stravinsky, Brecht, and the birth of epic opera (1962)

Introduction to The essence of opera (1964)

Reflections on a golden style: W.H. Auden's theory of opera (1970)

"Per porle in lista": Da Ponte/Leporello's amorous inventory and its literary and operatic antecedents from Tirso de Molina to Giovanni Bertati (1981)

Educating Siegfried (1984)

(Pariser) Farce oder wienerische Maskerade? Die französischen Quellen des Rosenkavalier (1987)

The little word und: Tristan und Isolde as verbal construct (1987)

Benedetto Marcellos Il Teatro alla moda: Scherz, Satire, Parodie oder tiefere Bedeutung? (1989)

Von Ballhorn ins Bockshorn gejagt: Unwillkürliche Parodie und unfreiwillige Komik im Ambroise Thomas' Mignon (1989)

"Die letzte Häutung". Two German Künstleropern of the Twentieth Century: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1992)

Between progress and regression: the text of Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress in the light of its evolution (1992)

What is Romantic opera? Toward a musico-literary definition (1994)

Böse Menschen singen keine Arien: Prolegomena zu einer ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Opernzensur (1996).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

904202111X

9789042021112

OCLC:

78605006