Berlioz's Semi-Operas: Roméo Et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust

by Daniel Albright

A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts.

This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire Romantic Movement, not least because they assault the notion of genre: they take place in a sort of limbo between symphony and opera, and try to fulfillthe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580460941
• ISBN13: 9781580460941
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.6"