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Passionate, witty, and brilliant, Opera as Drama has been lauded as one of the most controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining works of operatic criticism ever written. First published in 1956 and revised in 1988, Opera as Drama continues to be indispensable reading for all students and lovers of opera.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 249
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 December 2005
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520246928
Format: Paperback
Joseph Kerman, Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750 (California, 2005) among many other books.
Preface to the New Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. Prologue: Opera as Drama
2. Orpheus: The Neoclassic Vision
3· The Dark Ages
4· Action and the Musical Continuity
5· Mozart
6. Verdi's Otello: Traditional Opera and the Image of Shakespeare
7· Opera as Sung Play
8. Opera as Symphonic Poem
9· Retrenchment: Wozzeck and The Rake's Progress
10. Drama and the Alternative
11. Epilogue: On Operatic Criticism
Index
Preface to the First Edition
1. Prologue: Opera as Drama
2. Orpheus: The Neoclassic Vision
3· The Dark Ages
4· Action and the Musical Continuity
5· Mozart
6. Verdi's Otello: Traditional Opera and the Image of Shakespeare
7· Opera as Sung Play
8. Opera as Symphonic Poem
9· Retrenchment: Wozzeck and The Rake's Progress
10. Drama and the Alternative
11. Epilogue: On Operatic Criticism
Index