German opera : from the beginnings to Wagner / John Warrack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warrack, John, 1928-

Series:

Cambridge studies in opera.

Cambridge studies in opera

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera--Germany.

Opera.

Physical Description:

xiv, 447 p. : 1 map, music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history. The many operas studied are placed in their historical, social and theatrical context, and attention is paid to the literary, artistic and philosophical ideas that made them part of the country's intellectual history.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Series-title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

1 Sixteenth-century beginings

2 The Thirty Years War and its aftermath

3 The Hamburg enterprise

4 Travelling troupes and changing attitudes

5 From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution

6 The Viennese Singspiel

7 Mozart's German operas

8 From the French Revolution to the turn of the century

9 French opera in Germany after the Revolution

10 New critics and singers

11 Opera in a new century: the first decade (1)

12 Opera in a new century: the first decade (2)

13 The groth of Romantic and grand opera

14 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (1)

15 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (2)

16 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (1)

17 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (2)

18 Wagner

APPENDIX

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 416-426) and index.

ISBN:

9780511096792

0511096798

9780511158094

0511158092

OCLC:

70772514

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07566 hdl