First Nights at the Opera - Rilegato

Kelly, Thomas Forrest

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ISBN 10: 0300100442 ISBN 13: 9780300100440

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, opera was the grandest entertainment in Western culture. In First Nights at the Opera, the renowned music scholar Thomas Kelly narrates the social history of European opera during its golden age by taking us behind the scenes at the premiere performances of five extraordinary and influential operas: Handel’s Giulio Cesare (London, 1724), Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Prague, 1787), Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Paris, 1836), Wagner’s Das Rheingold (Bayreuth, 1876), and Verdi’s Otello (Milan, 1887).



What was it like to be there, to see and hear and perform these operas for the very first time? Kelly takes us behind the curtains to introduce us to the nervous composers, the anxious impresarios, and the performers who had never sung these words to an audience before. Members of the audience, eager with expectation, take to their seats and boxes: What will appear on stage? Will someone miss a line? Will it be a triumph or a humiliation for the composer?



Richly illustrated and briskly narrated, this glittering introduction to the world of opera will delight aficionados and neophytes alike.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Thomas Forrest Kelly is Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300100442
• ISBN 13: 9780300100440
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 441
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile