History Through the Opera Glass (Limelight): From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon - Softcover

George Jellinek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879102845 ISBN 13: 9780879102845

Publisher: Limelight, 2004

Synopsis

(Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.

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Synopsis

This first-of-its kind, highly entertaining and carefully researched account recalls how nearly 200 operas by the world's leading composers have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Atilla, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundereds more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Limelight
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879102845
• ISBN 13: 9780879102845
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 42