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Title The impossible art : adventures in opera / Matthew Aucoin.
Publisher New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm
Edition First edition.


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 LW-Hillside  782.1 AUC Nearby on shelf  30641006404177 01-19-22  AVAILABLE
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.
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
Other title Adventures in opera
ISBN 9780374175382
0374175381