Opera as drama new and revised edition

• Main Author: Kerman, Joseph (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley; Los Angeles University of California Press 1988
• Subjects: Όπερα > Δραματουργία; Όπερα

Table of Contents:

• Prologue: Opera as drama
• Orpheus: the Neoclassic Vision
• The Dark Ages
• Action and the Musical Continuity
• Mozart
• Verdi's Otello: traditional opera and the Image of Shakespeare
• Opera as Sung Play
• Opera as symphonic Poem
• Retrenchment: Wozzeck and The Rake's Progress
• Drama and the Alternative
• Epilogue: On Operatic Criticism.