Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss
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ISBN: 0801494281 / Publisher: Cornell University Press, October 1986
Argues that operas dramatically express the ideas of the times about the individual, society and history, and looks at six great operas in terms of their intellectual content
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<p>Opera and Ideas is a study of the connections between music and intellectual history. Through lucid analysis of six operas and two song cycles, Paul Robinson shows how operas give musical and dramatic expression to ideas about the self, society, and history.</p>
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