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Title: OPERA
PASSION, POWER AND POLITICS
By: Kate Bailey (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £40.00


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ISBN 10: 1851779280
ISBN 13: 9781851779284
Publisher: V & A PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 18 September, 2017
Pages: 304
Description: With contributions from Placido Domingo, Sir Antonio Pappano and Simone Young, a stellar cast of authors look beyond the many stereotypes associated with opera to examine how, like all the great narrative arts, it draws on essential human experiences to create a form that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect a constantly changing society.
Synopsis: Opera is traditionally regarded as an elitist art form far removed from reality by its fantastical plots and melodramatic divas. This book shows that beneath the opulent sets and sumptuous costumes, opera is very much a product of its time. Like all the great narrative arts, it draws on essential human experiences to create a form that can be endlessly reinvented to reflect a changing society.Focusing on seven opera premieres in seven distinct cultural landscapes, with additional essays by contemporary practitioners including Placido Domingo, Antonio Pappano and Simone Young, the book culminates in the international explosion of opera in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The seven operas and premieres are: Venice (Monteverdi's L'Incoranazione di Poppea, 1642);London (Handel's Rinaldo, 1711); Vienna (Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, 1786); Milan (Verdi's Nabucco, 1842); Paris (Wagner's Tannhauser, 1861); Dresden (Strauss' Salome, 1905) and St Petersburg (Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, 1934)
Illustrations: 260 col
Publication: UK
Imprint: V & A Publishing
Returns: Returnable
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