The nature of opera : entry for The New Grove Dictionary of Opera -- Mozart’s comedies and the sense of an ending -- Mozart’s Figaro : a question of class? -- Don Giovanni as an idea -- Passion and cynicism : remarks on Cosi fan tutte -- Rather red than black : Verdi, Don Carlos and the passion for freedom -- Tristan and time -- The elusiveness of pessimism : responding to the Ring -- Wagner and the transcendence of politics -- L’envers des destinees : remarks on Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande -- Manifest artifice : the ingenuity of Puccini -- Comments on Opera and ideas : from Mozart to Strauss / by Paul Robinson -- The Marriage and the Flute : Tippett and Mozart -- Janacek’s modernism : doing less with more in music and philosophy -- Authenticity and re-creation : musicology, performance and production -- Naive and sentimental opera lovers.
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