The Opera: The Rough Guide

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The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning nearly four centuries of music drama. Features include biographical sketches of some 150 composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Thomas Ades, detailing the main events of their careers while revealing their social and musical context; entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas, both famous and obscure, with a clear synopsis and a concise essay for each; incisive CD reviews, covering not just the latest digital recording but ...
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The Rough Guide to Opera is a unique handbook on the most thrilling of art forms, spanning nearly four centuries of music drama. Features include biographical sketches of some 150 composers, from Claudio Monteverdi to Thomas Ades, detailing the main events of their careers while revealing their social and musical context; entertaining accounts of hundreds of operas, both famous and obscure, with a clear synopsis and a concise essay for each; incisive CD reviews, covering not just the latest digital recording but also dozens of classic historical sets; and a who's who of the finest singers on record, from Caruso and Ponselle, through divas such as Callas and Joan Sutherland, to present-day stars like Jose Cura and Angela Gheorghiu.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781858284569
  • Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
  • Publication date: 12/1/1999
  • Series: Rough Guide Music Reference Series
  • Edition description: 2nd Edition
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 704
  • Product dimensions: 6.62 (w) x 9.18 (h) x 1.52 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Ch. 1 The Birth of Opera: Monteverdi to Purcell
Claudio Mouteverdi 7
Pier Francesco Cavalli 16
Jean-Baptiste Lully 20
Marc-Antoine Charpentier 25
John Blow 28
Henry Purcell 30
Ch. 2 Baroque Opera: Vivaldi to Handel
Antonio Vivaldi 41
Giovanni Pergolesi 45
Andre Campra 47
Jean-Philippe Rameau 49
Georg-Philipp Telemann 55
George Frideric Handel 58
John Gay 70
Ch. 3 The Reformation of Opera: Gluck to Mozart
Christoph Willibald Gluck 76
Joseph Haydn 86
Giovanni Paisiello 90
Domenico Cimarosa 91
Antonio Salieri 93
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 95
Ch. 4 The Age of Romanticism
Luigi Cherubini 119
Ludwig van Beethoven 122
Luigi Spontini 126
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu 128
Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber 129
Giacomo Meyerbeer 132
Jacques Francois Helevy 135
Hector Berlioz 137
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann 145
Louis Spohr 147
Carl Maria von Weber 149
Heinrich Marschner 155
Franz Schubert 157
Robert Schumann 158
Albert Lortzing 160
Otto Nicolai 163
Friedrich von Flotow 164
Peter Cornelius 166
Gioacchino Rossini 168
Gaetano Donizetti 186
Vincenzo Bellini 196
Michael Balfe 205
Ch. 5 Verdi, Wagner and their Contemporaries
Giuseppe Verdi 211
Amilcare Ponchielli 246
Arrigo Boito 248
Richard Wagner 251
Johann Strauss the Younger 279
Ambroise Thomas 283
Charles Gounod 285
Jacques Offenbach 290
Edouard Lalo 297
Camille Saint-Saens 298
Leo Delibes 301
Georges Bizet 303
Emmanuel Chabrier 308
Ernest Chausson 310
Arthur Sullivan 311
Bedrich Smetana 315
Antonin Dvorak 320
Mikhail Glinka 321
Alexander Borodin 325
Modest Mussorgsky 327
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky 333
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 339
Ch. 6 Opera in Transition: The Generation of Puccini, Massenet and Debussy
Alfredo Catalani 349
Pietro Mascagni 350
Ruggero Leoneavallo 354
Giacomo Puccini 358
Umberto Giordano 375
Francesco Cilea 379
Jules Massenet 381
Gustave Charpentier 389
Claude Debussy 391
Engelbert Humperdinck 395
Frederick Delius 398
Ch. 7 The Era of Modernism
Richard Strauss 408
Hans Pfitzner 424
Franz Lehar 426
Ferruccio Busoni 430
Alexander Zemlinsky 434
Arnold Schoenberg 439
Franz Schreker 443
Erich Korngold 446
Alban Berg 450
Paul Hindemith 455
Kurt Weill 460
Ernst Krenek 466
Viktor Ullmann 468
Ervin Schulhoff 471
Leos Janacek 473
Bohuslav Martinu 482
Bela Bartok 486
Zoltan Kodaly 488
Karol Szymanowski 490
Sergei Rachmaninov 492
Igor Stravinsky 496
Sergei Prokofiev 503
Dmitri Shostakovich 510
Carl Nielsen 514
Ralph Vaughan Williams 517
Paul Dukas 519
Maurice Ravel 521
Manuel de Falla 524
Virgil Thomson 527
George Gershwin 529
Ch. 8 Opera since World War II
Francis Poulenc 538
Olivier Messiaen 542
Luigi Dallapiccola 544
Luigi Nono 546
Luciano Berio 548
Gottfried von Einem 550
Bernd Alois Zimmermann 553
Hans Werner Henze 555
Aribert Reimann 559
Karlheinz Stockhausen 561
Wolfgang Rihm 566
Gyorgy Ligeti 568
Krzysztof Penderecki 571
Alfred Schnittke 573
Aulis Sallinen 575
Einojuhani Rautavaara 579
Louis Andriessen 581
Benjamin Britten 583
Michael Tippett 587
William Walton 603
Harrison Birtwistle 606
Peter Maxwell Davies 610
Michael Nyman 614
John Tavener 615
Judith Weir 617
Mark-Anthony Turnage 619
Thomas Ades 621
Gian Carlo Menotti 623
Samuel Barber 627
Leonard Bernstein 629
Carlisle Floyd 631
Philip Glass 633
John Corigliano 637
John Adams 639
Tan Dun 644
Directory of Singers 647
Directory of Conductors 677
Glossary 689
Index 697
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2001

    Concise, dry, but good

    This is essentially a reference volume, though it is not organized as such (though it should be). It is put together more as a thematic history of opera composers. One shortcoming of this book (and all of the 'Rough Guides' series volumes) is that it only seems to include those works deemed 'most important' by Boyden and his associates. More often than not, though, they choose well. One of the best aspects of this book is its inclusion of key recordings for each of the works discussed. All in all this book is good for a quick brush up on an opera's plot before hearing a performance or for finding one's way through the sea of opera recordings.

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