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ISBN10: 0393348954
ISBN13: 9780393348958
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 8 2015
Pages: 680
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780393348958
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 8 2015
Pages: 680
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their effervescent, witty (Die Welt, Germany) retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the musical and dramatic means by which it communicates, and its role in society. Now with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century, this lucid and sweeping (Boston Globe) narrative explores the tensions that have sustained opera over four hundred years: between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre's most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to change the viewer-- physically, emotionally, intellectually--with its enduring power.
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