This guide contains articles about the historical background to the opera, as well as musical and dramatic commentaries. Further articles deal with the changes in musical performance brought about in recent times by the period practice movement and with the particular uses Mozart makes of recitatives.
Carmen is one of the most enduringly popular of all operas and the most successful of Georges Bizet's works. Following its premiere at the Opera-Comique in Paris in 1875, it went on to be performed at all the major opera houses in the world.
Eugene Onegin is the most popular of Tchaikovsky's operas. Entitled 'Lyrical Scenes after Pushkin' by the composer, the work takes as its basis the poem of the same name by the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin.
Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old. It is one of most astonishing achievements of an altogether astonishing career. This guide explains the special nature of the music in an analysis of its themes and development, and places the opera in its context as an expression of the Enlightenment.
This edition contains over twenty illustrations, a thematic guide and the texts of the libretti in the original with literal translations. There is also a bibliography, discography and DVD guide, together with a list of websites that will allow the reader to explore the opera further.
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