The impossible art : adventures in opera / Matthew Aucoin.
"User's guide to opera--Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374175382
- ISBN: 0374175381
- Physical Description: xvi, 299 pages : music ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A Field Guide to the Impossible -- Primal Loss : Orpheus and Eurydice in Opera -- The Firewood and the Fire : Words, Music, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress -- Verdi's Shakespeare Operas : MacBeth, Otello, Falstaff -- Walt Whitman's Impossible Optimism -- Inner Rooms : Two Recent Impossibilities -- Finding Eurydice -- Music as Forgiveness : Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | 782.1 AUC (Text) | 37810435782148 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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