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Reading Opera
(Paperback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Reading Opera
Contributors:
By (Author) Arthur Groos
Edited by Roger L. Parker
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Opera
Dewey:
782.1
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
364
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
510g
Description
"Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger
