A History of Opera : The Last Four Hundred Years
Abbate, Carolyn, Parker, Roger
Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2012
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- Title
- A History of Opera : The Last Four Hundred Years
- Author
- Abbate, Carolyn, Parker, Roger
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0713996331
- ISBN 13
- 9780713996333
- Edition
- Third Impression.
- Item weight
- 2.465 pounds
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This definitive work tells the entire story of the world's most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power and drama. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume history of opera for more than a generation provokes in-depth discussions of many works by the greatest opera composers, from Monteverdi, Handel and Mozart, to Verdi and Wagner, to Strauss, Puccini, Berg, and Britten. There are lively discussions of opera's social, political and literary background, its economic circumstances and the almost continual polemics that have accompanied its development through the centuries. Abbate and Parker examine the problems that opera has faced in the last half century, when new works - which were once opera's life-blood - have shrunk to a tiny minority, have largely failed to find a permanent place in the repertoire.
Yet the book's final message is one of celebration. Opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. It continues to transform people physically, emotionally, and intellectually, and to articulate human experience in ways no other art form can match.
'[T]his is the best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority and readability' - Times Literary Supplement
'Their fantastically clear-sighted and down-to-earth history focuses on what opera is and was rather than what it should be or would like to have been. Their virtuosic spring-clean of opera's past reveals an art form quite different to the one that we come across today' - Daily Telegraph
'Parker and Abbate have written a highly idiosyncratic and personal history of opera. [It] has a brio, insouciance, and even irreverence that are very much their own' - New Republic
'[F]resh, brave, challenging and, above all, useful' - Literary Review
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About the Author
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Harvard University and the author of Unsung Voices (1991) and In Search of Opera (2001). As well as about opera, she writes on philosophy, music as performance, ephemeral art, and film and sound technology. Her work has been translated into many languages. She is herself a translator, most recently of Vladimir Jankélévitch's La musique et l'ineffable, and has been involved in theatre, as a dramaturge and director.
Roger Parker is Professor of Music at King's College, London, and the author of Leonora's Last Act (1997) and Remaking the Song (2006). He writes particularly Italian opera of the nineteenth century. He is founding co-editor of the Donizetti critical edition, published by Ricordi, and editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (1994).
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