The Ultimate Art : Essays Around and about Opera / David Littlejohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Littlejohn, David, 1937-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Opera.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1994.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter one. Introduction: the difference is they sing

Chapter two. Singing greek tragedy

Chapter three. When opera was still serious

Chapter four. Ariosto and his children

Chapter five. Don Giovanni: the impossible opera

Chapter six. What peter sellars did to Mozart

Chapter seven. Norma: the case for bel canto

Chapter eight. Hugo sung and unsung: or why we put up with dumb opera plots

Chapter nine. Sex and religion in french opera

Chapter ten. Nuremberg used and abused

Chapter eleven. Whatever became of the breastplates?

Chapter twelve. What makes otello work?

Chapter thirteen. The odd couple: Offenbach and Hoffmann

Chapter fourteen. The Janáček boom

Chapter fifteen. Herr von words and doctor music

Chapter sixteen. The twentieth century takes on Shakespeare

Chapter seventeen. Artists on the opera stage

Suggestions for further reading

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520325579

0520325575

OCLC:

1198931559