Overview
This volume of eleven essays, compiled as a tribute to Winton Dean on his seventieth birthday, focuses on that area which has absorbed Winton Dean's interest throughout his distinguished career: opera and other theatre music. The first half of the book covers the period from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. The second half of the book ranges over later opera: operacomique; Mendelssohn's operas; the influence of Wagner; the finales of Janácek's operas; and Britten's first two major operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia.
- | Author: Nigel Fortune
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 408 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521619289
- | ISBN-13: 9780521619288
