The rough guide to opera /
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| Author / Creator: | Boyden, Matthew. |
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; New York : Rough Guides, 2007. |
| Description: | xxiv, 733 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7530812 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Opera on DVD
- 1. The Birth of Opera: Monteverdi to Purcell
- List of operas covered in Chapter 1
- Claudio Monteverdi
- Pier Francesco Cavalli
- Jean-Baptiste Lully
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier
- John Blow
- Henry Purcell
- 2. Baroque Opera: Vivaldi to Handel
- List of operas covered in Chapter 2
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Giovanni Pergolesi
- Andre Campra
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Georg-Philipp Telemann
- George Frideric Handel
- John Gay
- 3. The Reformation of Opera: Gluck to Mozart
- List of operas covered in Chapter 3
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Joseph Haydn
- Giovanni Paisiello
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Antonio Salieri
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 4. The Age of Romanticism
- List of operas covered in Chapter 4
- Luigi Cherubini
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Luigi Spontini
- Francois-Adrien Boieldieu
- Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Jacques Francois Halevy
- Hector Berlioz
- Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
- Louis Spohr
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Heinrich Marschner
- Franz Schubert
- Robert Schumann
- Albert Lortzing
- Otto Nicolai
- Friedrich von Flotow
- Peter Cornelius
- Gioacchino Rossini
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Michael Balfe
- 5. Verdi, Wagner and their contemporaries
- List of operas covered in Chapter 5
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Amilcare Ponchielli
- Arrigo Boito
- Richard Wagner
- Johann Strauss the Younger
- Ambroise Thomas
- Charles Gounod
- Jacques Offenbach
- Edouard Lalo
- Camille Saint-Saens
- Leo Delibes
- Georges Bizet
- Emmanuel Chabrier
- Ernest Chausson
- Arthur Sullivan
- Bedrich Smetana
- Antonin Dvorak
- Mikhail Glinka
- Alexander Borodin
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- 6. Opera in Transition: The Generation of Puccini, Massenet and Debussy
- List of operas covered in Chapter 6
- Alfredo Catalani
- Pietro Mascagni
- Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Giacomo Puccini
- Umberto Giordano
- Francesco Cilea
- Italo Montemezzi
- Jules Massenet
- Andre Messager
- Gustave Charpentier
- Claude Debussy
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Frederick Delius
- 7. The Era of Modernism
- List of operas covered in Chapter 7
- Richard Strauss
- Hans Pfitzner
- Franz Lehar
- Ferruccio Busoni
- Alexander Zemlinsky
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Franz Schreker
- Erich Korngold
- Alban Berg
- Paul Hindemith
- Kurt Weill
- Ernst Krenek
- Viktor Ullmann
- Ervin Schulhoff
- Leos Janacek
- Bohuslav Martinu
- Bela Bartok
- Zoltan Kodaly
- Karol Szymanowski
- Sergei Rachmaninov
- Igor Stravinsky
- Sergei Prokofiev
- Dmitri Shostakovich
- Carl Nielsen
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Paul Dukas
- Maurice Ravel
- Manuel de Falla
- Virgil Thomson
- George Gershwin
- 8. Opera since World War II
- List of operas covered in Chapter 8
- Francis Poulenc
- Olivier Messiaen
- Luigi Dallapiccola
- Luigi Nono
- Luciano Berio
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Gottfried von Einem
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann
- Hans Werner Henze
- Aribert Reimann
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Wolfgang Rihm
- Gyorgy Ligeti
- Krzysztof Penderecki
- Alfred Schnittke
- Aulis Sallinen
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Poul Ruders
- Louis Andriessen
- Benjamin Britten
- Michael Tippett
- William Walton
- Harrison Birtwistle
- Peter Maxwell Davies
- Michael Nyman
- John Tavener
- Judith Weir
- Mark-Anthony Turnage
- Thomas Ades
- Gian Carlo Menotti
- Samuel Barber
- Leonard Bernstein
- Carlisle Floyd
- Philip Glass
- John Corigliano
- John Adams
- Tan Dun
- Directory of Singers
- Directory of Conductors
- Glossary
- Index
