Opera as drama

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An attempt to show why opera is one of the greatest forms of dramatic art, this has accounts of some of the greatest operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy and Berg. This revised edition has new material including a section on Idomeneo and an epilogue on operatic criticism. Among Professor Kerman's other books include Beethoven (with Alan Tyson) and Musicology. He is the co-editor of the journal 19th-century Music, and writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, and Critical Enquiry.

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Authors: Joseph Kerman
Published in: Medical Entomology and Zoology
Publication date:01/01/1956
Publisher:Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
Document type:Book
Language:English
ISSN:0424-7086, 2185-5609
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Cited by:113
Subjects:
Musicology and Musical Analysis (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Music)
Theater, Performance, and Music History (Social Sciences > Arts and Humanities > Music)
Literature, Musicology, and Cultural Analysis (Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Education)
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