More Scott Operas: further analysis of operas based on the works of Sir Walter Scott.

MITCHELL, Jerome

ISBN 10: 0761802606 / ISBN 13: 9780761802600

Published by University Press of America [1996], Lanham, etc., 1996

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Size: 8vo. 328pp. Publisher's hardback. Music examples.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Scott Operas: further analysis of operas based on the works of Sir Walter Scott.
• Publisher: University Press of America [1996], Lanham, etc.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761802606
• ISBN 13: 9780761802600
• Binding: Hardcover

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Synopsis

More Scott Operas examines some thirty operas based on the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott that have come to light since publication of the author's widely reviewed earlier book, The Walter Scott Operas (1977), which discussed fifty Scott operas. There are chapters on an operatic setting of a Scott poem by a little known English composer who knew Wagner; on three operatic renditions of another poem, The Lord of the Isles; on Carl Loewe's opera Emmy, based on Kenilworth, and on an opera by a twentieth century Argentine composer based on the same novel; on a forgotten Italian Fair Maid of Perth opera that would rival Bizet's; and on two chamber operas by a composer-librettist who is alive and well and at home in Charleston, South Carolina. The book concludes with an intriguing account of Scott's night at the San Carlo Opera. Mitchell's approach is again that of a literary-historian than of a music critic or musicologist. He shows what happened to Scott's original poem or novel when it is changed into an opera and how that opera compares with others based on the same poem or novel. This approach leads to a fresh slant on Scott's characters and on the structure of his works, and it leads ultimately to our greater awareness and appreciation of Scott's art and of his impact on European culture.

About the Author

Jerome Mitchell is the author of several books including Scott, Chaucer and Medieval Romance (University Press of Kentucky, 1987). He is Professor of English at the University of Georgia.