David Charlton (ed.)

Broschiertes Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera

Beschreibung

A team of scholars and writers examines important Romantic operas and traces the origins and development of a style created during an increasingly technical age. The volume analyzes grand operas by Rossini, Auber, Meyerbeer and Halé vy and discusses grand opera in Russia and Germany, and the Czechoslovakian territories, Italy, Britain and the Americas. The volume includes an essay by the renowned opera director David Pountney.

Autor

David Charlton is Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Grétry and the Growth of Opéra-Comique (Cambridge, 1986), E. T. A. Hoffman''s Musical Writings: Kreisleriana; The Poet and the Composer; Music Criticism (Cambridge, 1989) and most recently, French Opera 1730-1830 (2000).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 522
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 998g
• ISBN-13: 9780521646833
• ISBN-10: 0521646839
• Artikelnr.: 22140095