Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti - Softcover

Lake, Charles E.

 
9780920151389: Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0920151388 ISBN 13: 9780920151389
Verlag: Sound And Vision Publishing Ltd ,Canada, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Opera treated in an irreverent tenor.

Grabbing Operas by Their Tales flippantly retells the plots of fifteen of the best known and well-loved operas. Using irreverent humor, word play, footnotes, and absurdities, each opera plot is described in an entertaining and educational way.

The fifteen operas are:

  • Carmen by Bizet
  • Faust by Gounod
  • Romeo and Juliet by Gounod
  • Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck
  • Don Giovanni by Mozart
  • Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach
  • Tosca by Puccini
  • Turandot by Puccini
  • Cinderella by Rossini
  • Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saens
  • Il Trovatore by Verdi
  • Aida by Verdi
  • Otello by Verdi
  • Lohengrin by Wagner
  • Die Walkure by Wagner.

Grabbing Operas by Their Tales is great reading for music lovers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles E. Lake is unencumbered by musical talent or training and thus he provides a man-on-the-street view of these sacred, but improbable opera plots.

Mike Rooth is a freelance illustrator. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications.

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Verlag
Sound And Vision Publishing Ltd ,Canada
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0920151388
ISBN 13 
9780920151389
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Taschenbuch
Zeichner
Rooth Mike
Anzahl der Seiten
178
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