Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- Part I The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Part II The nineteenth century
- Part III The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Chapter 13 The turn of the century and the crisis in opera
- Chapter 14 First modernism: Symbolist and Expressionist opera
- Chapter 15 The dramaturgy of opera: libretto – words and structures
- Chapter 16 Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic
- Chapter 17 Radical narratives
- Chapter 18 Directors and the direction of opera
- Appendix 1 Motifs from The Ring used in Chapter 10
- Appendix 2 The development of singing voices in opera
- Appendix 3 The development of lyric theatre alternatives to ‘opera’
- Appendix 4 Some major operas and artistic and political events of the twentieth century, 1899--2008
- Glossary of key terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 15 - The dramaturgy of opera: libretto – words and structures
from Part III - The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Introduction
- Part I The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Part II The nineteenth century
- Part III The twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- Chapter 13 The turn of the century and the crisis in opera
- Chapter 14 First modernism: Symbolist and Expressionist opera
- Chapter 15 The dramaturgy of opera: libretto – words and structures
- Chapter 16 Narrative opera: realistic and non-realistic
- Chapter 17 Radical narratives
- Chapter 18 Directors and the direction of opera
- Appendix 1 Motifs from The Ring used in Chapter 10
- Appendix 2 The development of singing voices in opera
- Appendix 3 The development of lyric theatre alternatives to ‘opera’
- Appendix 4 Some major operas and artistic and political events of the twentieth century, 1899--2008
- Glossary of key terms
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Opera , pp. 313 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012