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Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth.(Book Review)
Opera in Theory and Practice, Image and Myth. Edited by Lorenzo Bianconi and Giorgio Pestelli. Translated by Kenneth Chalmers and Mary Whitall. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [xiv, 456 p. ISBN 0-226-04592-7. $70.] Music examples, illustrations, index.
Originally published in 1988 in Italian as volume 6 of the Storia dell'opera italiana, this welcome and useful book is the second from the original series to appear in English translation. The other, Opera Production and its Resources, was published in Italian in 1987 and in English in 1998. These two selections from the original series seem to represent a decision to provide translations of items of ...
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