BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295). |
Contents |
A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Four Hundred Years of Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- A Conversation with Sarah Ruhl -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. |
Summary |
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. |
Subject |
Opera.
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Other title |
Adventures in opera |
ISBN |
9780374175382
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0374175381
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