Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging - Softcover

Donington, Robert

 
9780300056617: Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300056613 ISBN 13: 9780300056617
Verlag: Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Robert Donington, the noted musicologist, performer, and writer, is famous for his influential and provocative book Wagner's "Ring" and Its Symbols, and for his indispensable reference work The Interpretation of Early Music. In this book he discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. Only in this way, says Donington, can we be faithful to the conscious or unconscious symbolism invested in the work by the composer and librettist.

Starting form Carlyle's premise that "it is through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works and has his being," Donington interprets scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers. Time and again Donington sheds new light on operatic situations that are problematic or have become over-familiar. His lively and wide-ranging work reveals a deep knowledge and love of opera, combined with a rare insight into hidden meanings to be found in music, words, and action.

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Verlag
Yale University Press, New Haven & London
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300056613
ISBN 13 
9780300056617
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
264
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