Literature as opera / Gary Schmidgall.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmidgall, Gary, 1945-
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
Subjects:
Opera > Dramaturgy.
Music and literature.
Physical Description:xi, 431 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An opening perspective
  • George Frideric Handel: Orlando, Ariodante, Alcina
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
  • Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda and Lucia di Lammermoor
  • Hector Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
  • Richard Strauss: Salome
  • Alban Berg: Wozzeck
  • Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice
  • Afterword: The crisis of modern opera
  • Literature as opera, a symposium.