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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author:	Williams, Bernard
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Yale University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Opera.

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Editorial Preface / Williams, Patricia
Introduction / Tanner, Michael
1. The Nature of Opera: Entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
2. Mozart's Comedies and the Sense of an Ending
3. Mozart's Figaro: A Question of Class?
4. Don Giovanni as an Idea
5. Passion and Cynicism: Remarks on Così fan tutte
6. Rather Red than Black: Verdi, Don Carlos and the Passion for Freedom
7. Tristan and Time
8. The Elusiveness of Pessimism: Responding to the Ring
9. Wagner and the Transcendence of Politics
10. L'Envers des destinées: Remarks on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande
11. Manifest Artifice: The Ingenuity of Puccini
12. Comments on Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss by Paul Robinson
13. The Marriage and the Flute: Tippett and Mozart
14. Janácek's Modernism: Doing Less with More in Music and Philosophy
15. Authenticity and Re-creation: Musicology, Performance and Production
16. Naïve and Sentimental Opera Lovers
Acknowledgments
Index of Names and Works.