Patrick J. Smith (2) (1932–)
Auteur de The Tenth Muse: A Historical Study of the Opera Libretto
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Patrick J. Smith, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
Œuvres de Patrick J. Smith
Oeuvres associées
Four centuries of opera : manuscripts and printed editions in the Pierpont Morgan Library (1983) — Introduction — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Smith, Patrick John
- Date de naissance
- 1932
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Professions
- music critic
historian
Membres
Critiques
The Tenth Muse: A Historical Study of the Opera… par Patrick J.. Smith
3.5 stars. Definitely a seminal work on the subject, although - like so many academic works that encompass a vast range of fiction - it could've used more synopses and appendices on the works discussed. Still, for anyone researching the field, it remains one of the key texts.
Super informative and worth reading.
Using the 1981-82 season as a sampler, Smith explores the Metropolitan Opera week-by-week for an entire production season. My assumption was that this would be primarily a fly-on-the-wall examination of how things went inside. It wasn't quite that, in part because - although he was able to speak with many people involved - this is not an 'authorised' production book. Instead, Smith uses each week's repertoire as a starting point to examine the Met's operations, its challenges, and its recent history, and the way that operagoing and production were shifting and changing all around. Forty years later there is a generation of new challenges and yet many of the things discussed here still resonate. Smith had been going to the Met for at least 20 years and is thus able to talk about the advances (and/or devolutions) in direction, performing, programming, audience structuring, and reputation. There's a lot of fascinating material here about what it takes to get one of the world's biggest opera companies going each year and also how an artistically conservative house nevertheless must grapple with the winds of change.
Enjoyable.… (plus d'informations)
Using the 1981-82 season as a sampler, Smith explores the Metropolitan Opera week-by-week for an entire production season. My assumption was that this would be primarily a fly-on-the-wall examination of how things went inside. It wasn't quite that, in part because - although he was able to speak with many people involved - this is not an 'authorised' production book. Instead, Smith uses each week's repertoire as a starting point to examine the Met's operations, its challenges, and its recent history, and the way that operagoing and production were shifting and changing all around. Forty years later there is a generation of new challenges and yet many of the things discussed here still resonate. Smith had been going to the Met for at least 20 years and is thus able to talk about the advances (and/or devolutions) in direction, performing, programming, audience structuring, and reputation. There's a lot of fascinating material here about what it takes to get one of the world's biggest opera companies going each year and also how an artistically conservative house nevertheless must grapple with the winds of change.
Enjoyable.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 41
- Popularité
- #363,652
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 1