The world treasury of grand opera : its triumphs, trials, and great personalities / edited by George R. Marek.
| Author/creator | Marek, George R. editor. |
| Other author | Marek, George R. (George Richard), 1902-1987, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Harper & Brothers, ©1957. |
| Description | xi, 674 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- Italian opera. The nature of the lady / George R. Marek ; Rossini as a composer / Francis Toye ; Some personal recollections of Rossini / Camille Saint-Saëns ; The Barber of Seville / Ernest Newman ; How to write an overture / Gioacchino Rossini ; Bellini described / Heine ; A performance of Lucia from Where Angels Fear to Tread / E. M. Forster ; Madame Bovary goes to hear Lucia / Gustave Flaubert ; A portrait of Verdi / Franz Werfel ; Verdi the musician / Francis Toye ; Verdi refunds ; Three letters by Verdi to his publishers ; Verdi composes Otello / Francis Toye ; Otello's première / Blanche Roosevelt ; Falstaff / Francis Toye ; Before Falstaff was performed / Anonymous ; A performance of Traviata from On the Eve / Turgeniev ; Verismo opera / W. H. Auden ; How I wrote Pagliacci / Ruggiero Leoncavallo ; Death of a libretto / Henry W. Simon ; In defense of Puccini / Mosco Carner ; Butterfly's failure / George R. Marek -- French opera. For the family trade / George R. Marek ; Gluck declares his principles ; Napoleon as an operatic dictator / Martial Teneo ; Gounod's Faust / Herbert F. Peyser ; Faust in music / Ernest Newman ; The voice of Carmen / Paul Bekker ; The two Manons / Edward Sackville-West ; The spite of a poet / Victor Seroff -- German opera. Ambrosia and pretzels / George R. Marek ; An early portrait of Mozart / Adolph Heinrich von Schlichtegroll ; How Mozart conceived opera / Romain Rolland ; An appreciation of Figaro and Così fan Tutte / Alfred Einstein ; A singer remembers Mozart / Michael O'Kelly ; An imaginary conversation between Mozart and Da Ponte / Alexander Oulibicheff ; Mozart and Salieri / Alexander Pushkin ; Fidelio / John N. Burk ; Fidelio misunderstood / Donald Francis Tovey ; Sufferings and greatness of Richard Wagner / Thomas Mann ; The monster / Deems Taylor ; Wagner explains the music of the future to Rossini / Louis Biancolli ; Wagner and Pauline Viardot-Garcia / Anna Schoen-René ; The death of Wagner / Ernest Newman ; An appreciation of Die Meistersinger / Robert M. Rayner ; The song of the lark / Willa Cather ; Richard Strauss discusses Der Rosenkavalier and Solome [i.e. Salome] ; The dusk of Richard Strauss / Wallace Brockway and Herbert Weinstock ; Wozzeck / Olin Downes -- |
| Contents | Opera houses and audiences. What may be seen at the opera / Henry Sutherland Edwards ; Hans Castorp listens to the gramophone from The Magic Mountain / Thomas Mann ; Italian opera in New York / Lorenzo Da Ponte ; A stormy performance of Norma / Max Maretzek ; The original purpose of the Metropolitan Opera / Irving Kolodin ; Backstage at the Met from Time Magazine ; Opera war / Vincent Sheean ; How La Scala works / Martin Mayer ; The battle of the claque / Joseph Wechsberg ; The opera box: the sorrows of a New York hostess / Alice Duer Miller ; How to act in opera / Alfred V. Frankenstein ; Natasha goes to the opera from War and Peace / Leo Tolstoy ; How to act when hearing opera from La Vie Parisienne -- For and against translation. The Spectator looks at opera / Joseph Addison ; What's wrong with opera in New York? / Oscar George Sonneck ; The case for translated opera / Deems Taylor ; Yes, but mostly no / Olin Downes ; Against translation / Herbert F. Peyser -- Singers and conductors. How a tenor revolves around the public / Hector Berlioz ; Patti: an appreciation / Eduard Hanslick ; A different view / George Bernard Shaw ; The other shoe from The Mapleson Memoirs / Col. J. H. Mapleson ; A memory of Salzburg and Fidelio / Vincent Sheean ; As I see Lenore / Lottie Lehmann ; Maria Malibran / Richard G. White ; Caruso / Francis Robinson ; Two letters / Enrico Caruso ; Evelyn Innes / George Moore ; Toscanini conducts opera / Lawrence Gilman and Olin Downes ; Toscanini's first appearance at the Metropolitan / Giulio Gatti-Casazza -- The crisis of opera. The crisis of modern opera / Henry Pleasants ; L'Envoi / Donald Jay Grout. |
| Abstract | This collection of more than 75 writings about opera includes introductory notes and essays by the editor. The material is grouped under these headings: Italian opera; French opera; German opera; Opera houses and audiences; For and against translation; Singers and conducting; Crisis of opera. |
| LCCN | 57008171 |
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