The Experience of Opera (Norton Library, N706)

Lang, Paul Henry

ISBN 10: 0393007065 / ISBN 13: 9780393007060

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1973

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Experience of Opera (Norton Library, N706)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393007065
• ISBN 13: 9780393007060
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Acceptable

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Synopsis

“Paul Henry Lang has made another important contribution―informed, literate, and highly readable. We are all in his debt.” ―Francis Robinson, Metropolitan Opera Association.

Based on Dr. Lang’s experience as music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, this book preserves the immediate reactions of a working reviewer, his on-the-spot responses to the actual experience of theatrical productions, spanning the active repertory from Gluck to the present day. It is at once an introduction to the art of opera and a rich repository of perceptions about the changing nature and esthetics of the musical theater. All of the major composers are discussed: Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Berg, and Stravinsky. There are also chapters on opera buffa, verismo, French opera, Russian opera, American opera, operetta, opera in English, and opera in concert form.

About the Author

The late Paul Henry Lang ranks among the century's most eminent musicologists. A longtime faculty member at Columbia University, he also served as editor of the Musical Quarterly and as music critic for the New York Herald Tribune.