| C.W. Von Gluck, Orfeo Contributor(s): Howard, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521296641 ISBN-13: 9780521296649 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1981 Annotation: This book explains how and why Gluck??'s historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck??'s ???reform of opera???, an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers and philosophers, as well as musicians and librettists. Patricia Howard and her fellow contributors describe how the opera has been reinterpreted during the two hundred years between its first performance and the present day. Differing twentieth-century views based on practical experience of the work are put forward by the conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Charles Mackerras, the singer Kevin Smith and the English National Opera music consultant Tom Hammond. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Opera - Music | History & Criticism - General |
| Dewey: 782.1 |
| LCCN: 80049734 |
| Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.44" W x 8.41" (0.46 lbs) 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explains how and why Gluck's historically important and best-loved opera Orfeo came into existence, and shows why it has retained its popularity. The work is placed in its context of Gluck's 'reform of opera', an artistic movement involving actors, dancers, designers, writers and philosophers, as well as musicians and librettists. Patricia Howard and her fellow contributors describe how the opera has been reinterpreted throughout the past two hundred years from its first performance. Differing twentieth-century views based on practical experience of the work are put forward by the conductors John Eliot Gardiner and Sir Charles Mackerras, the singer Kevin Smith and the English National Opera music consultant Tom Hammond. |