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Tables of Contents for Opera
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
The Medici Wedding Festivities of 1589 (de' Rossi)
1
7
Pietro Bardi on the Birth of Opera
8
3
L'Euridice, the Second Opera (Buonarroti, Rinuccini, Peri, Caccini)
11
8
Cavalieri's Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo (Guidotti, Cavalieri)
19
5
Monteverdi Criticizes a Libretto
24
4
Sant'Alessio at the Barberini Palace, Rome (Rospigliosi, Bouchard)
28
6
Opera Comes to Venice and Goes Public (Ivanovich)
34
5
Lully is Granted a Monopoly on Opera in French (Colbert, Lully)
39
5
The Grand Siecle Absorbs the Tragedie en musique (Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau)
44
7
Saint-Evremond's Views on Opera
51
9
The First English Operas (Dryden)
60
5
Handel's Rinaldo at the Haymarket Theatre (Hill, G. Rossi, Addison, Steele)
65
8
Pier Jacopo Martello on Opera (1715)
73
8
The President de Brosses in Italy (1739)
81
9
Metastasio on Setting Dramatic Recitative to Music
90
7
From Rousseau's Confessions
97
9
The War of the Buffoons (d'Holbach)
106
9
Interlude: A Traveling Company (G. Gozzi)
111
4
Operatic Reform in Vienna: Gluck and Calzabigi
115
6
Gluck in Paris (Meister)
121
9
Mozart at Work on Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail
130
6
Gretry's Richard Cur-de-Lion (Meister, Gretry)
136
5
The Making of Le nozze di Figaro (L. and W. A. Mozart, Da Ponte)
141
6
Kierkegaard's Don Giovanni
147
9
Fidelio in 1806 (Rockel)
156
6
Berlioz's Estimate of Spontini
162
3
E. T. A. Hoffmann on ``Music Drama That Springs from the Heart''
165
7
The First Performance of ll barbiere di Siviglia (Righetti-Giorgi)
172
3
Der Freischutz: A German Triumph (M. M. von Weber)
175
4
Parisian Grand Opera: Auber's La Muette de Portici as Seen by Wagner
179
6
Interlude: Madame Pasta (Hunt)
181
4
Verdi's Own Story of How Nabucco Was Composed
185
4
Verdi's Operatic Style Analyzed by a Contemporary (Basevi)
189
7
Wagner on the Evolution of his Style
196
5
Wagner's Theory of Drama
201
11
Divergent Reactions to Boris Godunov (Laroche, Stasov)
212
4
Tchaikovsky on Eugene Onegin
216
7
Nietzsche vs. Wagner
223
7
Verdi's Otello (Boito, Verdi, Morelli)
230
15
Interlude: Verdi and Wagner in Vienna (J. Sulzer)
243
2
Verismo (Verga)
245
6
Four Men at Work on La boheme (Illica, Puccini, Ricordi, Giacosa)
251
7
Pelleas et Melisande (Mauclair, journalist, Debussy)
258
7
Strauss and Hofmannsthal Work on Der Rosenkavalier
265
7
Duke Bluebeard's Castle (Ballasz)
272
3
Busoni and the Reinstatement of Disbelief
275
3
In Defense of Kat'a Kabanova, (Stuart)
278
5
Alban Berg on Wozzeck
283
5
Brecht on ``Epic Opera''
288
9
Shostakovich and the Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Debacle (Shostakovich, Pravda)
297
9
Interlude: An Italian Claque (Montale)
304
2
Peter Grimes in Postwar London (Edm. Wilson)
306
4
Stravinsky, Auden, and The Rake's Progress
310
9
A First Reaction to Poulenc's Dialogues des Carwelites (Mila)
319
3
Einstein on the Beach
322
6
John Adams on Nixon in China
328
6
Index
334