Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen.
On opera [electronic resource] / Bernard Williams. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006. - xix, 149 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cos�i fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destin�ees : remarks on Debussy's Pell�eas et M�elisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Jan�a�cek's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Na�ive and sentimental opera lovers.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Opera.
Electronic books.
ML1700 / .W48 2006eb
782.1
On opera [electronic resource] / Bernard Williams. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006. - xix, 149 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cos�i fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destin�ees : remarks on Debussy's Pell�eas et M�elisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Jan�a�cek's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Na�ive and sentimental opera lovers.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Opera.
Electronic books.
ML1700 / .W48 2006eb
782.1