James Parakilas, The Story of Opera

  • Brian J. Hart Northern Illinois University
Keywords: Music, Opera and Theater

Abstract

Review of a sociological approach to opera history: introducing readers to the experience of going to an opera as well as explaining some of the stories that operas tell.

Author Biography

Brian J. Hart, Northern Illinois University
Brian Hart has taught music history at Northern Illinois University since 1996. He is the author of “The French Symphony after Berlioz: From the Second Empire to the First World War,†an extensive study published in Vol. 3B of A. Peter Brown’s series The Symphonic Repertoire (Indiana University Press, 2007). He is author of the entries on César Franck and Arthur Honegger for Oxford Bibliographies Online.  He was the program annotator for the 2001 Bard Music Festival, Debussy and His World, held at Bard College and Lincoln Center. Professor Hart will serve as the editor for The Symphony in the Americas, vol. 5B of The Symphonic Repertoire, to be published by Indiana University Press.
Published
2014-01-21