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Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick: A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century
Robert K. Wallace
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Description for Heggie and Scheer's Moby-Dick: A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century
Hardcover. Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and the production staff follow the five-week rehearsal period into the world premiere production, each step of ... Read more
Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and the production staff follow the five-week rehearsal period into the world premiere production, each step of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Denton, United States
ISBN
9781574415070
SKU
V9781574415070
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About Robert K. Wallace
After earning his Ph.D. from Columbia, Robert K. Wallace began his career at Northern Kentucky University, USA where he is Regents Professor and teaches courses in Literature and the Arts. Wallace’s books include Jane Austen and Mozart, Melville and Turner, Frank Stella’s ‘Moby-Dick, and Douglass and Melville.
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