
The Experience of Opera
Paul Henry Lang(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. April 1973
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-393-00706-0 (ISBN)
Description
Based on Dr. Lang's experience as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, this book preserves the immediate reactions of a working reviewer, his on-the-spot responses to the actual experience of theatrical productions, spanning the active repertory from Gluck to the present day. It is at once an introduction to the art of opera and a rich repository of perceptions about the changing nature and esthetics of the musical theater. All of the major composers are discussed: Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg, and Stravinsky. There are also chapters on opera buffa, verismo, French opera, Russian opera, American opera, operetta, opera in English, and opera in concert form.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
405 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-00706-0 (9780393007060)
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Person
The late Paul Henry Lang ranks among the century's most eminent musicologists. A longtime faculty member at Columbia University, he also served as editor of the Musical Quarterly and as music critic for the New York Herald Tribune.