Leonora's Last ACT: Essays in Verdian Discourse
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In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by means of its brash impurity, its loose ends and excess of meaning, its superfluity of narrative secrets." Verdi's works, many of which underwent drastic...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691015570
ISBN13:9780691015576
Release Date:November 1997
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"
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