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Authors: Robert Donington
ISBN-13: 9780300056617, ISBN-10: 0300056613
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: September 1992
Edition: Reprint
In this book the late musicologist, performer, and writer Robert Donington discusses the workings of symbolism in opera and the importance of staging an opera in keeping with the composer's intentions. His analysis includes scenes and characters from operas by Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Puccini, Debussy, Strauss, Stravinsky, Berg, Britten, Tippett, and other composers