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Birth Of An Opera
The Birth of an Opera offers an illuminating insight into how operas are written and the personalities incidents and musical circumstances that have shaped their composition. Through a deft compilation of primary sources - letters memoirs and personal accounts from composers librettists and performers - Michael Rose re-creates for his readers the circumstances that gave rise to fifteen operatic milestones. From Monteverdi and Mozart to Puccini and Berg each chapter focuses on a well-known opera and tells the story that lies behind its creation. Rather than retreading familiar ground with pages of historical and musical analysis Rose places each opera firmly in the context of the composers life and provides an engaging text in which the varied and colourful personalities involved are seen
to discuss comment and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Othello; Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pelleas et Melisande. Throughout Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth and in so doing captures the bizarre interactions of chance genius practical necessity and dogged determination that
accompanied the making of some of operas most enduring masterpieces.
to discuss comment and contribute in one way or another to the progress of its composition. The reader will find Mozart with a new and flamboyant librettist tackling the risky enterprise of Le Nozze di Figaro; Wagner confessing his hidden love for the woman who inspires him as he creates the passionate drama of Tristan und Isolde; Verdi deep in Shakespearian discussion with Boito as they remodel the tragedy of Othello; Debussy coming almost literally to blows with Maeterlinck over the soprano to take the leading role in Pelleas et Melisande. Throughout Rose offers his readers the most direct possible link to events that have often become twisted or obscured by operatic myth and in so doing captures the bizarre interactions of chance genius practical necessity and dogged determination that
accompanied the making of some of operas most enduring masterpieces.
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