On opera / Bernard Williams.

A lifelong opera lover, Bernard Williams's articles and essays, talks for the BBC, contributions to the Grove Dictionary of Opera, and program notes for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the English National Opera, generated a devoted following. This volume brings together these widely...

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Main Author: Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003 (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2006]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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