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Opera and Its Symbols : The Unity of Words, Music and Staging
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Opera and Its Symbols : The Unity of Words, Music and Staging Paperback - 1992

by Donington, Robert

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The late musicologist, performer, and writer Robert Donington discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. His analysis includes scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers.

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Yale University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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When Thomas Carlyle wrote in his Sartor Resartus (Boston, 1836) that 'boundless as is the domain of man, it is but a small fractional proportion of it that he rules with Consciousness and by Forethought', and when he added that 'it is through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works and has his being', he was not introducing any novel concepts of philosophy, since there have been thinkers at least since Plato who would have put the matter not much differently.

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