Literature as opera / Gary Schmidgall.

Author/creator Schmidgall, Gary, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
Descriptionxi, 431 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 76057264
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