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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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- Title Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging
- Author Donington, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition UsedVeryGood
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
- Date 1992-08-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1M5000006YPY_ns
- ISBN 9780300056617 / 0300056613
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.15 x 5.97 x 0.73 in (23.24 x 15.16 x 1.85 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 782.1
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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.