Unsettling Opera
Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
272 pages, 26 halftones, 11 musical examples 6 x 9
©
2007
Cloth $35.00
ISBN: 9780226475226
Published October 2007
List of Illustrations Preface
1 Dramaturgy and Mise-en-Scène 2 Reading a Staging/Staging a Reading: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Performance 3 Fidelity in Translation: Mozart and Da Ponte’s Le nozze di Figaro 4 Deconstructing Singspiel: Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail 5 Between Sublimation and Audacity: Verdi’s Don Carlos 6 Beyond the Canon: Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules
Appendix: Plot Summaries Index
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