First Intermissions: Twenty-One Great Operas Explored, Explained, and Brought to Life from the Met - Hardcover

First Intermissions: Twenty-One Great Operas Explored, Explained, and Brought to Life from the Met.

Half Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. XV, 248 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand, inklusive Erratum Notiz / dust jacket rubbed, otherwise very good condition, erratum note included. - As many as eight to ten million music lovers in the United States, Canada, and Europe have heard the moving words of Father Owen Lee during the first intermissions of the Saturday afternoon operas broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His illuminating, intensely personal, immediately accessible half hours on the air have brought grateful letters by the thousand from both first-time listeners and veterans of fifty years of Met broadcast listening, from professors of music, art, literature, psychology, and science as well as from the general public. Now First Intermissions makes available, for the first time in print, twenty-one of Father Lees finest radio talks, analyses of some of the best loved operas in the repertoire, including masterworks by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Strauss. This is a book that brims full with opera lore, with the love of fine music, and with an abundance of good humor. Above all, it relates opera to the human condition, to our capacity for good and evil, our sorrows and joys, our myths and beliefs, our personal triumphs and tragedies. Here are new ways of understanding the problem of evil in Verdis Otello, the quest for self-realization in Wagners Parsifal, the sense of Virgilian tears in Berliozs Les Troyens, the irreversibility of time in Strausss Der Rosenkavalier. Each of these first intermissions explores a new idea with uncommon insight and clarity. Each relates opera to life. Aida, Lohengrin, Faust, and La Boheme are all, for Father Lee, dramas that sing of the love and tears of great-hearted people who, we thinh humhly when the music is done, are not all that different from ourselves. CONTENTS MOZART A New Kind of Opera: Idomeneo Verdi When Verdis Fathers Sing: Rigoletto Patterns of Light: Simon Boccanegra Chiaroscuro: Un Ballo in Maschera Everything in This Drama Is True: Don Carlo Six Prophetic Trumpets: Aida The Heart of Darkness: Otello WAGNER The Phantom Lover and the Eternal Feminine: Der Fliegende Hollander You Use Works of Art to See Your Soul: Tannhauser One Brief Shining Moment: Lohengrin Songbirds and Saints: Die Meistersinger Who Is the Grail?: Parsifal FRENCH OPERA The Matter of Melody: Faust Unanswered Questions: Les Troyens Six Characters in Search of a Poet: Les Contes dHoffmann Phrases Massenetiques: Manon PUCCINI A Charming Life, and a Terrible One: La Boheme The Maturing Male and the Voracious Virago: Turandot STRAUSS That Is What Fiction Means: Elektra A Moment Beyond Time: Der Rosenkavalier Love that Colors and Transforms: Die Frau ohne Schatten Further Reading Recordings and Videos Broadcast Dates Index. ISBN 9780195092554 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 405. Artikel-Nr. 1167441

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