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First intermissions :

(Number (ISBN

1280600217

(Number (ISBN

142374098X

(Number (ISBN

9781280600210

(Number (ISBN

9781423740988

Erroneous ISBN

0195092554

Erroneous ISBN

0195106490

Erroneous ISBN

9780195092554

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b799159

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First intermissions :

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[Book]

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twenty-one great operas explored, explained, and brought to life from the Met /

First Statement of Responsibility

M. Owen Lee.

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New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996, ©1995.

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1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) :

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illustrations

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Based on the author's intermission commentaries from Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231), discography and videography (p. 233-240) , and index.

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Mozart. A New Kind of Opera: Idomeneo -- Verdi. When Verdi's Fathers Sing: Rigoletto. Patterns of Light: Simon Boccanegra. Chiaroscuro: Un Ballo in Maschera. Everything in This Drama is True: Don Carlo. Six Prophetic Trumpets: Aida. The Heart of Darkness: Otello -- Wagner. The Phantom Lover and the Eternal Feminine: Der Fliegende Hollander. You Use Works of Art to See Your Soul: Tannhauser. One Brief Shining Moment: Lohengrin. Songbirds and Saints: Die Meistersinger. Who Is the Grail?: Parsifal -- French Opera. The Matter of Melody: Faust. Unanswered Questions: Les Troyens. Six Characters in Search of a Poet: Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Phrases Massenetiques: Manon -- Puccini. A Charming Life, and a Terrible One: La Boheme. The Maturing Male and the Voracious Virago: Turandot -- Strauss. That Is What Fiction Means: Elektra. A Moment Beyond Time: Der Rosenkavalier. Love that Colors and Transforms: Die Frau ohne Schatten.

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As many as eight to ten million music lovers in the United States, Canada, and Europe have heard the moving words of Father Owen Lee during the first intermissions of the Saturday afternoon operas broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His illuminating, intensely personal, immediately accessible half hours on the air have brought grateful letters by the thousand from both first-time listeners and veterans of fifty years of Met broadcast listening, from professors of music, art, literature, psychology, and science as well as from the general public.

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Each of these "first intermissions" explores a new idea with uncommon insight and clarity. Each relates opera to life. Aida, Lohengrin, Faust, and La Boheme are all, for Father Lee, dramas that sing of "the love and tears of great-hearted people who, we think humbly when the music is done, are not all that different from ourselves."

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Now First Intermissions makes available for the first time in print, twenty-one of Father Lee's finest radio talks, analyses of some of the best loved operas in the repertoire, including masterworks by Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Strauss. This is a book that brims full with opera lore, with the love of fine music, and with an abundance of good humor. Above all, it relates opera to the human condition, to our capacity for good and evil, our sorrows and joys, our myths and beliefs, our personal triumphs and tragedies. Here are new ways of understanding the problem of evil in Verdi's Othello, the quest for self-realization in Wagner's Parsifal, the sense of Virgilian tears in Berlioz's Les Troyens, the irreversibility of time in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

Title

First intermissions.

International Standard Book Number

0195106490

Operas-- Analysis, appreciation.

Opéras-- Analyse et appréciation.

MUSIC-- Instruction & Study-- Appreciation.

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Operas-- Analysis, appreciation.

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MUS-- 001000

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Lee, M. Owen,1930-2019.

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20201207113921.0

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[Book]

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