The impossible art : adventures in opera /
Aucoin, Matthew, 1990-
The impossible art : adventures in opera / Adventures in opera Matthew Aucoin. - First edition. - xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas : MacBeth, Otello, Falstaff -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.
"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--
9780374175382 0374175381
2021032228
Aucoin, Matthew, 1990-. Eurydice.
Opera.
Operas--Analysis, appreciation.
The impossible art : adventures in opera / Adventures in opera Matthew Aucoin. - First edition. - xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas : MacBeth, Otello, Falstaff -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.
"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"--
9780374175382 0374175381
2021032228
Aucoin, Matthew, 1990-. Eurydice.
Opera.
Operas--Analysis, appreciation.