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A history of opera: the last four hundred years

By Roger , Abbate , Carolyn;Parker

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2015
ISBN
9781846147913, 9780141009018, 0141009012
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
33 MB (34515433 bytes)
Series
Penguin history
Edition
Paperback edition
Pages
xxi, 623 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : il
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Opera;Opera--History;History;Opera -- History

Description

Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their scrupulous and provocative retelling of the history of opera, examining its development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal role. In a new revision with an expanded examination of opera as an institution in the twenty-first century this book explores the tensions that have sustained opera over 400 years--between words and music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker argue that, though the genre's most popular and enduring works were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to transform the viewer with its enduring power.

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