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The rough guide to opera / written by Matthew Boyden with contributions from Joe Staines ...[and others].
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML102.O6 B69 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyden, Matthew.
- Series:
- Rough Guides music reference series
- Rough Guides music series.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Opera--Dictionaries.
- Opera.
- Operas.
- Operas--Discography.
- Operas--Compact disc catalogs.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Discographies.
- Compact disc catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 733 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Other Title:
- Opera
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Rough Guides ; London ; New York : distributed by the Penguin Group, 2007.
- Summary:
- The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. The title features lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, animating the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context. Entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas both famous and neglected and comprehensive reviews of over a thousand CD' s from recent digital releases to the best historical recordings. From historical figures like Caruso to contemporary stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim, discover the finest singers and conductors on record. Superb photographs, drawings, and CD cover images make this title an Opera-lover' s essential.
- Contents:
- Opera on DVD xiii
- 1 The Birth of Opera: Monteverdi to Purcell
- List of operas covered in Chapter 1 1
- Claudio Monteverdi 6
- Pier Francesco Cavalli 14
- Jean-Baptiste Lully 18
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier 23
- John Blow 26
- Henry Purcell 28
- 2 Baroque Opera: Vivaldi to Handel
- List of operas covered in Chapter 2 33
- Antonio Vivaldi 38
- Giovanni Pergolesi 42
- Andre Campra 44
- Jean-Philippe Rameau 46
- Georg-Philipp Telemann 53
- George Frideric Handel 55
- John Gay 69
- 3 The Reformation of Opera: Gluck to Mozart
- List of operas covered in Chapter 3 73
- Christoph Willibald Gluck 77
- Joseph Haydn 87
- Giovanni Paisiello 90
- Domenico Cimarosa 92
- Antonio Salieri 93
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 96
- 4 The Age of Romanticism
- List of operas covered in Chapter 4 115
- Luigi Cherubini 119
- Ludwig van Beethoven 122
- Luigi Spontini 126
- Francois-Adrien Boieldieu 128
- Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber 129
- Giacomo Meyerbeer 132
- Jacques Francois Halevy 135
- Hector Berlioz 137
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann 145
- Louis Spohr 146
- Carl Maria von Weber 148
- Heinrich Marschner 154
- Franz Schubert 156
- Robert Schumann 158
- Albert Lortzing 160
- Otto Nicolai 162
- Friedrich von Flotow 163
- Peter Cornelius 165
- Gioacchino Rossini 167
- Gaetano Donizetti 185
- Vincenzo Bellini 199
- Michael Balfe 207
- 5 Verdi, Wagner and their contemporaries
- List of operas covered in Chapter 5 209
- Giuseppe Verdi 213
- Amilcare Ponchielli 248
- Arrigo Boito 250
- Richard Wagner 252
- Johann Strauss the Younger 284
- Ambroise Thomas 287
- Charles Gounod 290
- Jacques Offenbach 295
- Edouard Lalo 302
- Camille Saint-Saens 304
- Leo Delibes 306
- Georges Bizet 308
- Emmanuel Chabrier 313
- Ernest Chausson 315
- Arthur Sullivan 316
- Bedrich Smetana 320
- Antonin Dvorak 324
- Mikhail Glinka 326
- Alexander Borodin 329
- Modest Mussorgsky 331
- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky 337
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 343
- 6 Opera in Transition: The Generation of Puccini, Massenet and Debussy
- List of operas covered in Chapter 6 349
- Alfredo Catalani 353
- Pietro Mascagni 354
- Ruggero Leoncavallo 358
- Giacomo Puccini 362
- Umberto Giordano 379
- Francesco Cilea 382
- Italo Montemezzi 384
- Jules Massenet 386
- Andre Messager 395
- Gustave Charpentier 397
- Claude Debussy 399
- Engelbert Humperdinck 402
- Frederick Delius 405
- 7 The Era of Modernism
- List of operas covered in Chapter 7 411
- Richard Strauss 416
- Hans Pfitzner 432
- Franz Lehar 435
- Ferruccio Busoni 438
- Alexander Zemlinsky 442
- Arnold Schoenberg 446
- Franz Schreker 450
- Erich Korngold 453
- Alban Berg 456
- Paul Hindemith 461
- Kurt Weill 466
- Ernst Krenek 472
- Viktor Ullmann 474
- Ervin Schulhoff 477
- Leos Janacek 478
- Bohuslav Martinu 487
- Bela Bartok 491
- Zoltan Kodaly 493
- Karol Szymanowski 494
- Sergei Rachmaninov 496
- Igor Stravinsky 500
- Sergei Prokofiev 507
- Dmitri Shostakovich 515
- Carl Nielsen 519
- Ralph Vaughan Williams 522
- Paul Dukas 524
- Maurice Ravel 525
- Manuel de Falla 529
- Virgil Thomson 531
- George Gershwin 534
- 8 Opera since World War II
- List of operas covered in Chapter 8 537
- Francis Poulenc 542
- Olivier Messiaen 545
- Luigi Dallapiccola 547
- Luigi Nono 549
- Luciano Berio 551
- Salvatore Sciarrino 553
- Gottfried von Einem 555
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann 557
- Hans Werner Henze 559
- Aribert Reimann 563
- Karlheinz Stockhausen 565
- Wolfgang Rihm 570
- Gyorgy Ligeti 572
- Krzysztof Penderecki 574
- Alfred Schnittke 576
- Aulis Sallinen 578
- Einojuhani Rautavaara 581
- Poul Ruders 583
- Louis Andriessen 586
- Benjamin Britten 589
- Michael Tippett 602
- William Walton 607
- Harrison Birtwistle 609
- Peter Maxwell Davies 613
- Michael Nyman 617
- John Tavener 618
- Judith Weir 620
- Mark-Anthony Turnage 623
- Thomas Ades 625
- Gian Carlo Menotti 627
- Samuel Barber 631
- Leonard Bernstein 633
- Carlisle Floyd 635
- Philip Glass 637
- John Corigliano 641
- John Adams 643
- Tan Dun 648
- Directory of Singers 651
- Directory of Conductors 691.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2002.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781843535386
- 1843535386
- OCLC:
- 85830045
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