Pengarang: Carolyn Abbate

Who ‘speaks’ to us in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, in Wagner’s operas, in a Mahler symphony? In asking this question, Carolyn Abbate opens nineteenth-century operas and instrumental works to new interp …

In her new book, Carolyn Abbate considers the nature of operatic performance and the acoustic images of performance present in operas from Monteverdi to Ravel. Paying tribute to music’s realization b …

Die Oper ist die unglaublichste aller künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen – und dieses Buch der unglaublichste aller Versuche, sie zu beschreiben! Es ist ein Meisterwerk an Anschaulichkeit, Informations …

Opera is in many ways the most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. Prohibitively expensive and patently unrealistic, it can nevertheless paint the human passions with astoni …

“The best single volume ever written on the subject, such is its range, authority, and readability.”—Times Literary Supplement Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn …

Im Dunkeln sitzend und mit stiller Aufmerksamkeit folgen wir heute dem Operngeschehen auf der Bühne. Das war nicht immer so. Wer wissen möchte, was die Oper einst war, wie sie sich bis heute entwicke …

Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although th …

The classic work on the philosophy of music—now available in English to a new generation of readers Vladimir Jankélévitch left behind a remarkable œbody of work steeped as much in philosophy as in mu …