The Impossible Art
Adventures in Opera
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, ©2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780374175382
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PERFORMING ARTS Music Auc | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.