The Rough Guide to OperaRough Guides, 2002 - 735 σελίδες The Rough Guide to Opera is a handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning four hundred years of music drama. Features include: lively biographical sketches of some 150 composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Poul Ruders, detailing the main events of their careers and revealing their social and musical context; entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas, both the famous and neglected, each with a clear synopsis and a lively essay; CD reviews, covering the latest digital recordings as well as dozens of classic historical sets; and a who's who of the finest singers and conductors on record, from historical figures like Caruso, Callas and Toscanini to present-day stars like Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming and Daniel Barenboim. |
Περιεχόμενα
Baroque Opera | 35 |
Dario | 41 |
Les Indes galantes | 48 |
Pimpinone | 54 |
Tamerlano | 60 |
Serse | 66 |
Gluck to Mozart | 75 |
Alceste | 81 |
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann | 145 |
Giuseppe Verdi | 209 |
Ambroise Thomas | 326 |
Camille SaintSaëns | 343 |
Chapter Seven The Era of Modernism | 411 |
Viktor Ullmann | 474 |
586 | 537 |
Salvatore Sciarrino | 553 |
Joseph Haydn | 87 |
73 | 92 |
Antonio Salieri | 93 |
Die Entführung aus dem Serail | 99 |
Così fan tutte | 107 |
Chapter Four The Age of Romanticism | 115 |
Hector Berlioz | 137 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen | 627 |
György Ligeti | 633 |
Directory of Singers | 651 |
Directory of Conductors | 691 |
Glossary | 707 |
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