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First Nights at the Opera - Hardcover

Kelly, Thomas Forrest

 
9780300100440: First Nights at the Opera
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300100442 ISBN 13: 9780300100440
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300100442
ISBN 13 
9780300100440
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
441
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