History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon

Jellinek, George

ISBN 10: 0912483903 / ISBN 13: 9780912483900

Published by Pro Am Music Resources (edition First Edition), 1993

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With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0912483903-7-1-13_29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon
• Publisher: Pro Am Music Resources (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912483903
• ISBN 13: 9780912483900
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon - and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists.