Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti
Editorial Reviews
Teaching Music 12/2005
Twisted and entertaining stories... irreverent humor, wordplay, and absurdities to create tales that are entertaining and informative.
Book Description
Opera treated in an irreverent tenor.
Grabbing Operas by Their Tales flippantly retells the plots of fifteen of the best known and well-loved operas. Using irreverent humor, word play, footnotes, and absurdities, each opera plot is described in an entertaining and educational way.
The fifteen operas are: - Carmen by Bizet - Faust by Gounod - Romeo and Juliet by Gounod - Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck - Don Giovanni by Mozart - Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach - Tosca by Puccini - Turandot by Puccini - Cinderella by Rossini - Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saens - Il Trovatore by Verdi - Aida by Verdi - Otello by Verdi - Lohengrin by Wagner - Die Walkure by Wagner.
Grabbing Operas by Their Tales is great reading for music lovers.
Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti
Grabbing Operas By Their Tales: Liberating the Libretti,Charles E. Lake,Mike Rooth,Sound & Vision Publishing, Ltd.,0920151388,General,Genres & Styles - Opera,Music
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