(Amadeus). Evenings at the Opera: An Exploration of the Basic
Repertoire is a collection of essays based on Jeffery Langford's
lectures at the Manhattan School of Music and inspired by his
pre-performance talks at the Metropolitan Opera Guild. It presents
a unique view of the stylistic development of nearly 200 years of
opera history (from Mozart to Britten), with special attention to
the question of how the genre's competing components of action,
music, and text combine to make effective music drama. Taking a
thematic (rather than a purely historical) approach to this
exploration of selected works from the standard repertoire,
Langford engages the reader in the fundamental question of how the
shifting aesthetics of opera from one composer to another, one
country to another, and one era to another have resulted in vastly
different solutions to the problem of how to make a dramma per
musica (drama in music), as the Italian inventors of opera first
called it. Going beyond mere plot synopsis, he guides the reader
through analysis of specific issues of musical form, style, and
technique to shed new light on the perennial question of "how opera
(sometimes) works."
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