Situating Opera
Period, Genre, Reception
- Author: Lindenberger, Herbert
very accessible and offer excellent insights into why operas of the 20th century and beyond seem to have a more limited audience than the lyrical dramatic operas of the 19th century —
Book
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Contents
- Prologue. Why opera? Why (how, where) situate?;
- 1. Anatomy of a war horse: Il trovatore from A to Z;
- 2. On opera and society (assuming a relationship);
- 3. Opera and the novel: antithetical or complementary?;
- 4. Opera by other means;
- 5. Opera and/as lyric;
- 6. From separatism to unity: aesthetic theorizing from Reynolds to Wagner;
- 7. Toward a characterization of modernist opera;
- 8. Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera;
- 9. A brief consumer's history of opera; Epilogue. Why (what, how, if) opera studies?; Works cited.
