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Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
David R. B. Kimbell
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Description for Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
paperback. An opera handbook, first published in 1998, on the popular and still performed opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini. Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Num Pages: 156 pages, 5 b/w illus. 5 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Cambridge Opera Handbooks
Condition
New
Weight
193g
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521485142
SKU
V9780521485142
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99-5
Reviews for Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma
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