A season of opera from Orpheus to Ariadne / M. Owen Lee.

Author/creator Lee, M. Owen
Format Electronic
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,
Descriptionxi, 241 p. : music ; 24 cm.
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Contents The birth of opera from the spirit of Orpheus -- Du musst dein Leben ändern : Orfeo ed Euridice -- The opera of all operas : Don Giovanni -- The music of intuitive angels : The magic flute -- Music to set the spirit free : Fidelio -- Show business sense : L'elisir d'amore -- Oh, sweet music of Donizetti! : Lucia di Lammermoor -- Elemental, furious, wholly true : Il trovatore -- The requisite miracle : La traviata -- The whole checkered play of life : La forza del destino -- Melt Egypt into Nile : Aida -- A figure as old as comedy : Falstaff -- The exasperated eagle and the stoic saint : Les troyens -- The sins of Wagner's youth : Rienzi -- Long day's journey into night : Tristan und Isolde -- The making of a musical legend : Palestrina -- The moon is like the moon : Salome -- Genius and morbidezza : Manon Lescaut -- Mists, sails, sounds, and impressions : Pelléas et Mélisande -- It is your turn to speak : Dialogues des Carmélites -- An opera made of songs : Porgy and Bess -- The music wrote itself : Oklahoma! -- Hurry up please its [sic] time.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-219), discography/videography (p. [221]-230), and index.
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LCCN 99197740
ISBN0802042961 (acid-free paper) :

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