Opera: A History in Documents

by Piero Weiss

Book Overview

In Opera: A History in Documents, Piero Weiss presents a wide-ranging, vivid, and carefully researched tour of operatic history. A unique anthology of primary source material, this survey includes 115 chronologically organized selections--passages from private letters, public decrees, descriptions of first performances, portions of libretti, literary criticism and satire, newspaper reviews and articles, and poetry and fiction--from opera's late Renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116380
• ISBN13: 9780195116380
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"