Leonora's Last ACT: Essays in Verdian Discourse

by Roger Parker

Book Overview

In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by means of its brash impurity, its loose ends and excess of meaning, its superfluity of narrative secrets." Verdi's works, many of which underwent drastic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691015570
• ISBN13: 9780691015576
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"