Code: 01241876

Birth of an Opera

Name: Birth of an Opera
Brand: WW Norton & Co
SKU: 01241876
Price: 157.27 PLN
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by Michael Rose

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 2013
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Book synopsis

The Birth of an Opera offers an illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities, incidents, and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Through a deft compilation of primary sources - letters, memoirs and personal accounts from composers, librettists and performers - Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation. Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis, Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composer's life, and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colourful personalities involved are seen to discuss, comment, and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Othello; Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pelleas et Melisande. Throughout, Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth, and in so doing captures the bizarre interactions of chance, genius, practical necessity and dogged determination that accompanied the making of some of opera's most enduring masterpieces.