History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of NapoleonPro/Am Music Resources, 1994 - Počet stran: 405 (Limelight). This first-of-its-kind, highly entertaining, and carefully researched account reveals how nearly 200 operas by leading composers and librettists have portrayed the major events and personalities of more than 2000 years of history. In a continuous and absorbing narrative, the book sweeps from Roman times to 1820, with a cast of characters that includes Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Attila, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Napoleon and hundreds more. All are seen as the figures historians generally perceive them to have been and as their on-stage counterparts, created and re-imagined by some of opera's greatest artists. |
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Legend into History and Opera | 1 |
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE c 500 | 7 |
Photographs paintings engravings | 14 |
Rome after Caesars Death | 21 |
Samuel Ramey as Attila Verdi | 34 |
IV | 40 |
Karl der Grosse Charlemagne by Albrecht Dürer | 43 |
VII | 53 |
Friedrich Schorr as Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger | 158 |
XVI | 165 |
of Spain portrait by Titian | 170 |
XVII | 180 |
Photographs paintings engravings continued | 181 |
XVIII | 197 |
XIX | 204 |
XX | 215 |
Thuringian ContestsSicilian Vespers | 70 |
The Early Habsburgs Europe in Turbulence | 82 |
Renata Scotto and Placido Domingo as Francesca | 88 |
Crisis in the PapacyTurmoil in Spain | 99 |
XI | 108 |
XII | 118 |
XIII | 126 |
Titta Ruffo as Cristoforo Colombo Franchetti | 134 |
XIV | 139 |
The King Amuses Himself | 147 |
XV | 151 |
XXI | 225 |
XXII | 233 |
XXIII | 243 |
XXIV | 255 |
XXV | 262 |
XXVI | 275 |
XXVII | 285 |
XXVIII | 301 |
XXIX | 310 |
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