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The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
Michael Rose
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Description for The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
Hardcover. The Birth of an Opera offers illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Num Pages: 464 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 37. Weight in Grams: 762.
Through a deft compilation of primary sources—letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers—Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation.
Through a deft compilation of primary sources—letters, memoirs, and personal accounts from composers, librettists, and performers—Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg, each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation.
Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis, Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composer’s life and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colorful personalities involved are seen to discuss, comment, and contribute in one ... Read more
Throughout, Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth, and in so doing he captures the bizarre interactions of chance, genius, practical necessity, and dogged determination that accompanied the making of some of opera’s most enduring masterpieces.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393060430
SKU
V9780393060430
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About Michael Rose
Michael Rose is a musician and writer living in London. He is the author of Berlioz Remembered and the coauthor of Words about Music with John Amis. He wrote the commentary for Erich Auerbach’s Images of Music, has been a contributor to numerous publications including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ... Read more
Reviews for The Birth of an Opera: Fifteen Masterpieces from Poppea to Wozzeck
"Here are chapters of delight, elegantly and evocatively written by Rose, conjuring up the process of creation so as to make one eagerly turn or return to the music—and do so with heightened admiration and enjoyment."
John Warrack, University of Oxford "In the world of opera the voices of librettists and composers, critics and witnesses, have never been so ... Read more
John Warrack, University of Oxford "In the world of opera the voices of librettists and composers, critics and witnesses, have never been so ... Read more