Inside Bluebeard's Castle: Music and Drama in Bela Bartok's Opera

by Carl S. Leafstedt

Book Overview

This is the first book-length examination of Bart k's 1911 opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, one of the twentieth century's enduring operatic works. Writing in an engaging style, Leafstedt adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the opera by introducing, in addition to music-dramatic analysis, a number of topics that are new to the field of Bart k studies. These new areas of critical and scholarly terrain include a detailed literary study of the libretto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109996
• ISBN13: 9780195109993
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.8" x 8.8"