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Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions From Handel to Berio.(Book review)
Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions From Handel to Berio. By Roger Parker. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. [xii, 165 p. ISBN 10: 0520244184; ISBN 13: 9780520244184. $29.95.] Music examples, index.
The esteemed opera scholar Roger Parker delivered a collection of talks as part of the Bloch Lectures Series in 2002 at the University of California, Berkeley. They were, according to the author, "a series of meditations on (also I hope celebrations of) operatic texts, in particular ways in which operas long known to us have been, and might in the future be, subject to change of one sort or another" (pp. 11-12). Simple enough. Or is it? ...
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