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Met Opera HD simulcasts / Burton D. Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Burton D.
- Series:
- Opera Journeys guide.
- Opera Journeys guide
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas--Stories, plots, etc.
- Operas.
- Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Miami : Opera Journeys, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Opera Journeys' Guide to 10 operas in the hugely popular Met Opera HD Simulcasts 2008-2009 series features Cast and Credits, Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, and Burton D. Fisher's insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis. The featured operas are: Salome (R. Strauss), Doctor Atomic (Adams), La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz), Thais (Massenet), La Rondine (Puccini), Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Madama Butterfly (Pussini), La Sonnambula (Bellini), La Cenerentola (Rossini).
- Contents:
- Opera Journeys' Guide: Met Opera HD Simulcasts
- Opera Journeys Publications
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- a Prelude
- SALOME
- Provenance
- Principal Characters
- Brief Story Synopsis
- Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples
- Commentary and Analysis
- DOCTOR ATOMIC
- Libretto Sources
- Highlights from Doctor Atomic
- Commission for Doctor Atomic
- Adams' Music Score
- Productions of Doctor Atomic
- Stage works by composer John Adams
- World War II and the Atomic Bomb
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Los Alamos
- Trinity" bomb test
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs
- Post-war nuclear arms race
- Security hearings
- Final years
- Oppenheimer's legacy
- Final thoughts
- LA DAMNATION DE FAUST
- Part I: On a Hungarian plain
- Part II: Germany
- Part III: A view into Marguerite's house
- Part IV: Marguerite's house
- Epilogue
- THAIS
- Act I - Scene 1: Cenobite huts on the banks of the Nile River
- Act I - Scene 2: The terrace of Nicias' luxurious palace above the city of Alexandria
- Act II - Scene 1: At Thais' house
- Act II - Scene 2: In front of Thais' house
- Act III - Scene 1: The oasis
- Act III - Scene 2: The dwellings of the Cenobites
- Act III - Scene 3: The garden of the convent of the White Nuns
- LA RONDINE
- Act I: Magda's elegant salon in Paris, circa 1860
- Act II: At Chez Bullier's
- Act III: A seaside hotel on the French Riviera
- Commentary and Analysis.
- ORFEO ED EURIDICE
- Act I: The tomb of Euridice
- Act II: Tartarus, a part of Hades reserved for punishment of the wicked
- Act III: A rocky cavern
- LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
- Act I - Scene 1: "The Departure" - The grounds of Ravenswood Castle
- Act I - Scene 2: A park with a fountain at Lammermoor Castle
- Act II - Scene 1: "The Marriage Contract" - Lord Henry Ashton's apartments in Lammermoor Castle
- Act II - Scene 2: The Great Hall in Lammermoor Castle
- Act III - Scene 1: A dilapidated hall in the Ravenswood Castle
- Act III - Scene 2: The Great Hall at the Lammermoor Castle
- Act III - Scene 3: The Tombs of the Ravenswoods
- MADAMA BUTTERFLY
- Act I: Nagasaki, a house overloooking the harbor
- Act II: The interior of Butterfly's house
- Act III: Butterfly's house
- LA SONNAMBULA
- Act I - Scene 1: The village green
- Act I - Scene 2: A room in the inn
- Act II - Scene 1: A wood near the village
- Act II - Scene 2: The village near Teresa's mill
- LA CENERENTOLA
- Act I - Scene 1: A room in the dilapidated castle of the Baron, Don Magnifico
- Act I - Scene 2: A room in Don Ramiro's country house
- Act II - Scene 1: A room in Ron Ramiro's country house.
- Act II - Scene 2: A room in Don Magnifico's castle
- Act II - Scene 3: The throne room in Don Ramiro's palace
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-281-73171-4
- 9786611731717
- OCLC:
- 427509574
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