Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Opera and ideas Opera and ideas Paul A. Robinson In this thoughtful study, historian and opera lover Robinson relates music to the history of ideas by analyzing several major operas: The Marriage of Figaro, The Barber of Seville, Les Troyens, Don C… OL13250465W
Cinema's illusions, opera's allure Cinema's illusions, opera's allure David P. Schroeder "The invention of cinema was ingenious, so much so that virtually no one quite knew what to do with it. In its earliest stages, especially with the advent of the feature film, it needed models, and o… OL1983589W
Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London Vol. 2 Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London Vol. 2 Hume, Robert D.,Gabriella Dideriksen,Judith Milhous xxvii, 883 p., [16] p. of plates : 24 cm OL20989024W
A Pagan Spoiled A Pagan Spoiled Anthony Winterbourne "A Pagan Spoiled is a philosophical reading of Wagner's last music-drama. The book argues that the dramatic focus is the character of Kundry, rather than Parsifal himself. This interpretation is defe… OL4634976W