Reading Opera |
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| Editor:
| Groos, Arthur
Parker, Roger |
| Series title: | Princeton Studies in Opera Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-60267-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $92.99 |
Book Description:
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"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger
"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger