| Leos Janacek: Kata Kabanova Contributor(s): Tyrrell, John (Compiled by), Tyrrell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521298539 ISBN-13: 9780521298537 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1982 Annotation: K?t?a Kabanov? is both the first Jan?cek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John Tyrrell brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) on the opera's composition and its early performances. A group of key interpretations of the opera ranges from one by the opera's German translator and Jan?cek's first biographer Max Brod to specially commissioned essays by Wilfrid Mellers and by David Pountney, producer of the highly successful Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera Jan?cek cycle. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Dewey: 782.109 |
| LCCN: 81038505 |
| Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.52" W x 8.52" (0.78 lbs) 252 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: K t'a Kabanov is both the first Jan cek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John Tyrrell brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) on the opera's composition and its early performances. A group of key interpretations of the opera ranges from one by the opera's German translator and Jan cek's first biographer Max Brod to specially commissioned essays by Wilfrid Mellers and by David Pountney, producer of the highly successful Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera Jan cek cycle. |