The impossible art : adventures in opera / Matthew Aucoin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aucoin, Matthew, 1990- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Operas--Analysis, appreciation.

Operas.

Aucoin, Matthew, 1990- Eurydice.

Aucoin, Matthew.

Physical Description:

xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Adventures in opera

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Summary:

"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A Field Guide to the Impossible

2. Primal Loss: Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera

A Guide to Four Hundred Years of Orphic Operas

The Impossible Moment: Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo

Music as Consolation: Marc-Antoine Charpentier's La descente d'Orphee aux enfers

Supersaturation: Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus

3. The Firewood and the Fire: Words, Music, and Stravinsky's the Rake's Progress

4. Verdi's Shakespeare Operas: Macbeth, Otello, Falstaff

Verdi's Warmth

Raw Material: Macbeth

The Overreacher: The Singular Career of Arrigo Boito

Expansion and Contraction: Otello

A Last Step, A First Step: Falstaff

5. Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism

6. Inner Rooms: Two Recent Impossibilities

Thomas Ades's The Exterminating Angel

Chaya Czernowin's Heart Chamber

7. Finding Eurydice

A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl

8. Music as Forgiveness: Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780374175382

0374175381

OCLC:

1259293962