ISBN: 0306760266

[SR: 2224671], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780306760266], Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Book, [PU: Da Capo Press], Da Capo Press, This Da Capo Press edition of "The Critic at the Opera" is an unabr… Más…

[SR: 2224671], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780306760266], Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Book, [PU: Da Capo Press], Da Capo Press, This Da Capo Press edition of "The Critic at the Opera" is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in London in 1957 by Ernest Benn Limited. Contents: Foreword; PART ONE, UP TO 1700 - SIGHT: I. The Start of Opera; II. Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson; III. Davenant and Opera; IV. Opera at Rutland House; V. Opera at the Cockpit, Drury Lane; VI. The Duke's Theatre and The Slighted Maid; VII. Davenant and Killegrew; VIII. Dramatic Opera and Shadwell; IX. French Opera in London; X. Locke's Psyche; XI. Dryden and Opera; XII. Purcell and Opera; PART TWO, UP TO 1800 - SOUND: I. Italian Opera Introduced; II. Italian Singers Introduced; III. A Critical Discourse upon Operas; IV. Steele and Addison; V. The Royal Academy; VI. The Touchstone; VII. Handel and his Rivals; VIII. Comedy Operas Triumph; PART THREE, UP TO 1914 - SENSE: I. Mozart Operas Introduced; II. Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Barber; III. Lord Mount-Edgcumbe's Reminiscences; IV. Freischütz to The Bohemian Girl; V. Ernani to Faust; VI. The Flying Dutchman to Carmen; VII. The Ring, Meistersinger, Tristan; VIII. Otello to Butterfly; IX. Samson and Delilah to Prince Igor; Bibliography; Indexes: I. Composers and Conductors; II. Masques, Operas, and other Theatre Entertainments; III. Singers; IV. Theatres and other Places for Masques, Operas, etc.; V. General Index, 1728, Opera, 1822, Songbooks, 4512, Musical Genres, 4507, Music, 1, Arts & Photography, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<