LEADER 04446nam 22005772 450 001 9910451845803321 005 20210531145055.0 010 $a94-012-0063-7 010 $a1-4294-8151-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401200639 035 $a(CKB)1000000000475320 035 $a(EBL)556845 035 $a(OCoLC)723943668 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000243552 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12076330 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000243552 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10158542 035 $a(PQKB)10574203 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556845 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380549 035 $a(OCoLC)170227030 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401200639 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000475320 100 $a20200716d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aSelected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein /$fedited by Walter Bernhart 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 1 $aWord and Music Studies ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2111-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Selected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein -- The Libretto as Literature (1961) -- Cocteau, Stravinsky, Brecht, and the Birth of Epic Opera (1962) -- Introduction to The Essence of Opera (1964) -- Reflections on a Golden Style: W.H. Auden's Theory of Opera (1970) -- "Per porle in lista": Da Ponte/Leporello's Amorous Inventory and its Literary and Operatic Antecedents from Tirso de Molina to Giovanni Bertati (1981) -- Educating Siegfried (1984) -- (Pariser) Farce oder wienerische Maskerade? Die französischen Quellen des Rosenkavalier (1987) -- The Little Word und: Tristan und Isolde as Verbal Construct (1987) -- Benedetto Marcellos Il Teatro alla moda : Scherz, Satire, Parodie oder tiefere Bedeutung? (1989) -- Von Ballhorn ins Bockshorn gejagt: Unwillkürliche Parodie und unfreiwillige Komik im Ambroise Thomas' Mignon (1989) -- "Die letzte Häutung". Two German Künstleropern of the Twentieth Century: Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (1992) -- Between Progress and Regression: The Text of Stravinsky's Opera The Rake's Progress in the Light of its Evolution (1992) -- What is Romantic Opera? Toward a Musico-Literary Definition (1994) -- Böse Menschen singen keine Arien : Prolegomena zu einer ungeschriebenen Geschichte der Opernzensur (1996) -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Persons and Operas Mentioned in the Text. 330 $aUlrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies. Among his broad intermedial interests opera has always held a central place. For the first time this volume makes available his major contributions to opera criticism in compact form, thus meeting a serious scholarly demand. The necessarily stringent selection of essays from Professor Weisstein's large output on opera, reflecting fifty years of involvement with the genre, is primarily governed by the wish to present texts that are representative of their author's work and, at the same time, are unlikely to be readily available through other channels. The fourteen essays collected are arranged in chronological order, some of them showing Ulrich Weisstein as an initiator of librettology, others tracing adaptive processes extending from textual sources to final operas, or investigating writer/composer collaborations. Further topics are satirical reflections on operatic activities in early-eighteenth-century Italy and practices of opera censorship, artist operas or definitions of romantic and epic opera. The essays are written in an accessible, essentially non-technical language and are expected to make both a profitable and a pleasurable reading for literary scholars as well as musicologists and general art lovers. 410 0$aWord and Music Studies ;$v8. 606 $aOpera 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOpera. 676 $a781.5 702 $aBernhart$b Walter 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451845803321 996 $aSelected Essays on Opera by Ulrich Weisstein$92492521 997 $aUNINA