Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner
Introduction: On Analyzing Opera Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker Sources and Interpretations Motive and Harmony Tonality and Structure
University of California Press
The Ultimate Art
Preface Introduction: The Difference Is They Sing Singing Greek Tragedy When Opera Was Still Serious Ariosto and His Children Don Giovanni: The Impossible Opera What Peter Sellars Did to Mozart Norma: The Case for Bel Canto Hugo Sung and Unsung: Or Why We Put Up with Dumb Opera Plots Sex and Religion in French Opera …
Opera and Modern Culture
Prologue: Thinking through Opera with Wagner and Strauss Opera: Two or Three Things I Know About Her Contesting Wagner: The Lohengrin Prelude and Anti-Anti-Semitism The Waters of Prometheus: Nationalism and Sexuality in Wagner’s Ring Enchantment and Modernity: Wagner the Symptom Modernity’s Cutting Edge: The Salome Complex Video as Jugendstil: Salome, Visuality, and Performance Fin-de-siècle fantasies: …
The Drama of Speech Acts: Shakespeare’s Lancastrian Tetralogy
Introduction Richard II 1 Henry IV 2 Henry IV Henry V Method Conclusion A Selective Bibliography