Opera as drama

Opera as drama / Joseph Kerman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerman, Joseph, 1924-2014
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1988.
Edition:	New and rev. ed.
Subjects:	Opera > Dramaturgy.

Table of Contents:

Prologue : Opera as drama
Orpheus : the neoclassic vision
The dark ages
Action and the musical continuity
Mozart
Verdi's Otello : traditional opera and the image of Shakespeare
Opera as sung play
Opera as symphonic poem
Retrenchment : Wozzeck and The Rake's Progress
Drama and the alternative
Epilogue : On operatic criticism.