| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| About/Subject | Opera |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Copyright | 1990 |
| Pages / Font | 248 pages |
| Library of Congress Catalog Card Number | 89-39530 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-300-05661-3 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9 780300 056617 |
| Chapters | List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES
Introduction
1) A Totality of Symbols
2) Words, Music, Staging
3) Compatibility on Stage
Part Two: Practice
4) The Start of Opera
5) Monteverdi
6) The Age of Reason
7) The Enlightenment
8) A Masonic Vision
9) The Romantic Movement
10) Verdi
11) Early Wagner
12) Wagner's Ring
13) Further Wagner
14) The Last of Wagner
15) Realism
16) Strauss
17) The Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Appendix: Musical Examples from Wagner's Ring
Notes
References
Index List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
PART ONE: PRINCIPLES
Introduction
1) A Totality of Symbols
2) Words, Music, Staging
3) Compatibility on Stage
Part Two: Practice
4) The Start of Opera
5) Monteverdi
6) The Age of Reason
7) The Enlightenment
8) A Masonic Vision
9) The Romantic Movement
10) Verdi
11) Early Wagner
12) Wagner's Ring
13) Further Wagner
14) The Last of Wagner
15) Realism
16) Strauss
17) The Twentieth Century
Conclusion
Appendix: Musical Examples from Wagner's Ring
Notes
References
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