TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aucoin,Matthew
TI  - The impossible art: adventures in opera 
SN  - 9780374175382
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Aucoin, Matthew,
KW  - Opera
KW  - Operas
KW  - Analysis, appreciation
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -