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Ellen T. Harris

Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

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Purcell's Dido and Aeneas stands as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-century England, and yet, despite its global renown, it remains cloaked in mystery. The date and place of its first performance cannot be fixed with precision, and the absolute accuracy of the surviving scores, which date from almost 100 years after the work was written, cannot be assumed.In this thirtieth-anniversary new edition of her book, Ellen Harris closely examines the many theories that have been proposed for the opera's origin and chronology, considering the opera both as political allegory and as a positive exemplar for young women. Her study explor… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-086144-5
  • EAN: 9780190861445
  • Produktnummer: 25735750
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 5'620 KB
  • Auflage: 2. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 43 line, 9 halftone

Über den Autor


Ellen T. Harris is Professor Emeritus at MIT in Music and Theater Arts. Her research has focused largely on the music of Handel. Her books include the award-winning George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends (Norton, 2014) and Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard, 2001). She has performed twice with John Williams and the Boston Pops and sung the National Anthem at Fenway Park.

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