Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti

Lake, Charles E.

ISBN 10: 0920151388 ISBN 13: 9780920151389

Published by Sound & Vision Pub Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2004

Language: English

Condition: Used Soft cover

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Title

Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti

Publisher

Sound & Vision Pub Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Publication Date

2004

Language

English

ISBN 10

0920151388

ISBN 13

9780920151389

Binding

Softcover

Illustrator

Rooth, Mike

Weight

2 pounds

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Opera treated in an irreverent tenor.

Grabbing Operas by Their Tales flippantly retells the plots of fifteen of the best known and well-loved operas. Using irreverent humor, word play, footnotes, and absurdities, each opera plot is described in an entertaining and educational way.

The fifteen operas are:

Carmen by Bizet
Faust by Gounod
Romeo and Juliet by Gounod
Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck
Don Giovanni by Mozart
Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach
Tosca by Puccini
Turandot by Puccini
Cinderella by Rossini
Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saens
Il Trovatore by Verdi
Aida by Verdi
Otello by Verdi
Lohengrin by Wagner
Die Walkure by Wagner.

Grabbing Operas by Their Tales is great reading for music lovers.

About the Author

Charles E. Lake is unencumbered by musical talent or training and thus he provides a man-on-the-street view of these sacred, but improbable opera plots.

Mike Rooth is a freelance illustrator. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications.

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