On opera

On opera / Bernard Williams.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
Subjects:	Opera.
Online Access:	Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description

Table of Contents:

The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending
Mozart's Figaro : a question of class?
Don Giovanni as an idea
Passion and cynicism : remarks on Così fan tutte
Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom
Tristan and time
The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring
Wagner and the transcendence of politics
L'envers des destinées : remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini
Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson
The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart
Janáček's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy
Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production
Naïve and sentimental opera lovers.