Opera & ideas :

Robinson, Paul A., 1940-

Opera & ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul A. Robinson. - 1st ed. - New York : Harper & Row, c1985. - 279 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [268]-269.

Enlightenment and reaction : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The marriage of Figaro and Gioacchino Rossini's The barber of Seville -- The self and nature : Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise -- The idea of history : Hector Berlioz's The Trojans -- Realpolitik : Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo -- Art, psyche, and society : Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger and Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier.

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Opera.
Song cycles--History and criticism.


Europe--Intellectual life.

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