Not without madness : perspectives on opera / Fabrizio Della Seta ; translated by Mark Weir

Author: Della Seta, Fabrizio
Uniform Title: Non senza pazzia. English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Physical Description: xiv, 303 pages : music ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Weir, Mark

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Contents

Theory and analysis. Emotion and action : on the theory of Italian opera ; Ernani : the "Carlo Quinto" act ; "O cieli azzurri" : exoticism and dramatic discourse in Aida ; What "happens" in the act 2 finale of Le nozze di Figaro? ; The death of King Duncan : from Shakespeare to Verdi, via the French Revolution ; "D'amor sull'ali rosee" : analyzing melody and the creative process -- History and criticism. Some difficulties in the historiography of Italian opera ; Verdi : the Italian tradition and the European experience ; Meyerbeer in nineteenth-century Italian criticism and the idea of "musical drama" ; Alberto Mazzucato and the beginnings of Italian Verdi criticism ; Parola scenica in Verdi and his critics ; Gabriele Baldini on Verdi : a theory of opera.

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9780226749143 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226749142 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226749167 (e-book)
0226749169 (e-book)

Note

Originally published in Italian as: "...Non senza pazzia" : prospettive sul teatro musicale. Rome : Carocci editore, 2008.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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