Vincenzo Bellini, Norma /

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kimbell, David R. B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series:Cambridge opera handbooks.
Subjects:
Bellini, Vincenzo, > 1801-1835. > Norma.
Bellini, Vincenzo > 1801-1835 > Norma
Bellini, Vincenzo.
Norma (Bellini, Vincenzo)
Norma.
1800-1899
Opera > Italy > 19th century.
Opéra > Italie > 19e siècle.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Opera.
Opera
Norma (Bellini)
Italy
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The composition of the opera
  • 2. Medea
  • Velleda
  • Norma: Romani's sources
  • 3. Synopsis and musical frame
  • 4. Music and poetry
  • 5. A glimpse of the genesis of the opera
  • 6. Some variant readings
  • 7. Contemporary reactions to Norma
  • 8. Critical fortunes since the Unification of Italy
  • 9. Five prima donnas: contributions to a performance history
  • App. I. Borrowings
  • App. II. The tonal plan of Norma
  • App. III. Liszt's 'Reminiscences de Norma'.

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