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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Plotkin, Fred.
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Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Opera 101 [electroni...
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Opera 101 [electronic resource] : a complete guide to learning and loving opera / Fred Plotkin.
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Plotkin, Fred.
New York : Hyperion, c1994.
Subjects
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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9780316291484 (electronic bk.)
031629148X (electronic bk.)
9781401306007 (electronic bk.)
1401306004 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 494 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
400 years of opera -- Becoming an opera cognoscente -- Going to the opera -- Discography for Opera 101 -- Rigoletto: learning your first opera -- Tosca: opera as drama -- Lucia di Lammermoor: drama expressed through music -- Il barbiere di Siviglia: opera and comedy -- Don Giovanni: Classical opera -- Les contes d'Hoffmann: French opera -- Eugene Onegin: romantic opera -- Don Carlo: grand opera -- Tannhäuser: opera and ideas -- Die walküre: epic opera -- Elektra: psychological opera -- Opera and you: a lifelong love affair -- Appendixes.
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Opera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you've decided that the time has finally come to learn about opera and discover for yourself what it is about opera that sends your normally reserved friends into states of ecstatic abandon, this is the book for you. Opera 101 is recognized as the standard text in English for anyone who wants to become an opera lover. It is a clear, friendly, and truly complete handbook for learning how to listen to opera, whether on the radio, on recordings, or live at the opera house. Fred Plotkin, an internationally respected writer and teacher about opera who for many years was performance manager of the Metropolitan Opera, introduces listeners, whatever their level of musical knowledge, to all the elements that make up opera, including: The major part of Opera 101 is devoted to an almost minute-by-minute analysis of eleven key operas, ranging from Verdi's thunderous masterpiece Rigoletto and Puccini's electrifying Tosca through works by Mozart, Donizetti, Rossini, Offenbach, Tchaikovsky, and Wagner, to the psychological complexities of Richard Strauss's Elektra. Once you have completed Opera 101, you will be prepared to see and hear any opera you encounter, thanks to this book's unprecedentedly detailed and enjoyable method of revealing the riches of opera.
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