TY - BOOK AU - Williams,Bernard Arthur Owen ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - On opera AV - ML1700 .W48 2006eb U1 - 782.1 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New Haven [Conn.] PB - Yale University Press KW - Opera KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart's comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart's Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cos�i fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L'envers des destin�ees : remarks on Debussy's Pell�eas et M�elisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Jan�a�cek's modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Na�ive and sentimental opera lovers; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10587842 ER -