German opera : from the beginnings to Wagner / / John Warrack

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968516003321
• Autore: Warrack John <1928->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 9780511096792; 0511096798; 9780511158094; 0511158092
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 447 p. : 1 map, music
• Collana: Cambridge studies in opera
• Disciplina: 792.1/0943
• Soggetti: Opera - Germany
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 416-426) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 Sixteenth-century beginings -- 2 The Thirty Years War and its aftermath -- 3 The Hamburg enterprise -- 4 Travelling troupes and changing attitudes -- 5 From the Seven Years War to the French Revolution -- 6 The Viennese Singspiel -- 7 Mozart's German operas -- 8 From the French Revolution to the turn of the century -- 9 French opera in Germany after the Revolution -- 10 New critics and singers -- 11 Opera in a new century: the first decade (1) -- 12 Opera in a new century: the first decade (2) -- 13 The groth of Romantic and grand opera -- 14 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (1) -- 15 Romantic opera and grand opera in the 1820s (2) -- 16 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (1) -- 17 Opera in the mid nineteenth century (2) -- 18 Wagner -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: German opera from its primitive origins up to Wagner is the subject of this wide-ranging history. The many operas studied are placed in their historical, social and theatrical context, and attention is paid to the literary, artistic and philosophical ideas that made them part of the country's intellectual history.