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German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. (Book Reviews: National Musics).
German Opera: From the Beginnings to Wagner. By John Warrack. (Cambridge Studies in Opera.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xiv, 447 p. ISBN 0-521-23532-4. $64.95.] Music examples, map, bibliography, index.
While German opera has an established place in the repertoire and the literature on the subject is extensive, discussions of the genre in standard histories of opera are often disappointing. For some, German opera starts with Mozart and culminates with Wagner without necessarily incorporating the baroque milieu in which Handel developed his craft, the court operas of the middle to late eighteenth century, or the various composers who experimented ...
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- Picture from: Magnum Photos Erich Hartmann January 1, 1955 700+ words
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...enterprise personally instigated by the Emperor Joseph II, a National-singspiel. Why should the emperor decide to establish German opera in Vienna if, as it was said, |there was at that time no taste for German operas' and if he himself preferred Italian...
- James Levine and Met rely on Wagner basics
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert C. Marsh October 2, 1986 700+ words
...many, this is how a Richard Wagner opera ought to look. Certainly...by Schenk's disregard for Wagner's explicit stage directions...the greatest love scene in German opera, except for the second act of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde...
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