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What Opera Means - Categories and Case-studies (Paperback)
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What Opera Means - Categories and Case-studies (Paperback)
Series: Defining Opera
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Loot Price R490
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A fresh, elegant and vital enquiry into the elusive character of
opera, unfolded through categories and case-studies, with an
emphasis on historical background, psychology and performance. This
book mounts a searching enquiry into the elusive character of
opera. The author argues that any work of art can be grasped
primarily through its constellation of Platonic ideas, or
'categories', several of which he explores in light of a new
definition of the art-form. He elaborates each category with
case-studies rooted in the time, place and circumstance of an
opera's origin: most of these are adaptations of
previously-published essays, though somedraw on talks for
universities, opera houses and the BBC. Although he looks back to
the infancy of opera, he concentrates on later, more familiar
repertory - principally Wagner, Verdi, Strauss and Britten.
Case-studies included under 'Psychology' reveal his long-standing
involvement with psychoanalysis, and those under 'Performance'
reinforce his view of opera as a branch of rhetoric. As the first
of a two-volume project, What Opera Means deals with categories
accessible to all: of fifty entries, only two require basic musical
knowledge (the second volume will be for specialists). The book is
thus suitable for the general reader, as well as for college
courses. CHRISTOPHER WINTLE is Emeritus Senior Lecturer in Music at
King's College London and General Editor of the series Defining
Opera (Plumbago Books). He has published extensively on nineteenth-
and twentieth-century music, and for twenty years was an opera
critic for the Times Literary Supplement. KATE HOPKINS (Editor) is
Content Producer for Opera at the Royal Opera House and Senior
Assistant Editor of Plumbago Books. She has written on opera and
literature for ENO, WNO and The Royal Opera.
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