Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 June 2012
- 17 September 1998
- ISBN:
- 9780511612145
- 9780521480369
- 9780521485142
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 138 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.35kg, 156 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 138 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.2kg, 156 Pages
- Subjects:
- Literature, Area Studies, Music, Opera, European Literature, European Studies
- Series:
- Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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- Literature, Area Studies, Music, Opera, European Literature, European Studies
- Series:
- Cambridge Opera Handbooks
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Book description
Norma is by common consent the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career, representing his genius more comprehensively than is usually the case with any single work by an operatic composer. This 1998 handbook provides the biographical and cultural context of the opera. It gives a full synopsis and an examination of the music and poetry, which is rooted in the aesthetics of early nineteenth-century Italian opera. Professor Kimbell suggests something of the impression Norma has made on our imaginations and sensibilities in the 165 years since it was first produced in Milan in December 1831. He considers the great interpretations of the eponymous leading role. His discussion also embraces Bellini's work more generally by presenting some of the critical reactions to his music.
Reviews
"In this excellent handbook about a key bel canto opera, Kimbell continues with the successful formula for this Cambridge series that stresses the artistic quality of the work, its sources, composition, reception and cultural context...worthwhile...Highly recommended." The Opera Journal
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