A History of Opera
A History of Opera This definitive work tells the entire story of the world's most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. This book, the first new, full-length, single-volume…
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A History of Opera
This definitive work tells the entire story of the world's most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. 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. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power and drama.
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. 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. 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.