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Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In times of delirious, madcap fun and political turmoil, opera fans have expressed their passion by dispatching records into the cosmos, building fairy-tale castles, and singing together through the arduous work of social justice. OPERA welcomes readers and listeners to a community full of friendship, passion, critique-and always, beautiful music"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From its beginning, opera has been an impossible art. Its first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Florence, set themselves the unreachable goal of reproducing the wonders of ancient Greek drama, which no one can be sure was sung in the first place. Opera s greatest artists have striven to fuse multiple art forms -- music, drama, poetry, dance -- into a unified synesthetic experience. The composer Matthew Aucoin, a rising star of the opera world,...
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