Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn
Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their scrupulous and
provocative retelling of the history of opera, examining its
development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal role.
Abbate and Parker’s A History of Opera is the first full new
history of opera in sixty years – now in paperback in an updated second
edition ‘The best single volume ever written on the subject’ The Times
Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences
for centuries? Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in
their scrupulous and provocative retelling of the history of opera,
examining its development, the means by which it communicates, and its
societal role. In a new revision with an expanded examination of opera
as an institution in the twenty-first century this book explores the
tensions that have sustained opera over 400 years- between words and
music, character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and
Parker argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works
were almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to
transform the viewer with its enduring power. %%%Abbate and Parker’s A
History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years –
now in paperback in an updated second edition ‘The best single
volume ever written on the subject’ The Times Literary Supplement
Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries?
Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker answer this question in their scrupulous
and provocative retelling of the history of opera, examining its
development, the means by which it communicates, and its societal role.
In a new revision with an expanded examination of opera as an
institution in the twenty-first century this book explores the tensions
that have sustained opera over 400 years- between words and music,
character and singer, inattention and absorption. Abbate and Parker
argue that, though the genre’s most popular and enduring works were
almost all written in a distant European past, opera continues to
transform the viewer with its enduring power.
About the Author
Carolyn Abbate is Professor of Music at Harvard University and the
author of Unsung Voices and In Search of Opera. Her work has been
translated into many languages. She herself is a translator, and has
been involved in theatre as a dramaturge and director. Roger Parker
is Professor of Music at King’s College, London, and the author of
Leonora’s Last Act and Remaking the Song. He is founding co-editor of
the Donizetti critical edition, and editor of The Oxford Illustrated
History of Opera.
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