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Situating opera: period, genre, reception

2011; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 48; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.48-5599

1943-5975

Herbert Lindenberger,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

Prologue. Why opera? Why (how, where) situate? 1. Anatomy of a war horse: Il trovatore from A to Z 2. On opera and society (assuming a relationship) 3. Opera and the novel: antithetical or complementary? 4. Opera by other means 5. Opera and/as lyric 6. From separatism to unity: aesthetic theorizing from Reynolds to Wagner 7. Toward a characterization of modernist opera 8. Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera 9. A brief consumer's history of opera Epilogue. Why (what, how, if) opera studies? Works cited.