A convenient and comprehensive pocket-sized GUIDE to Strauss's DER ROSENKAVALIER featuring the STORY SYNOPSIS, PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS in the opera, STORY NARRATIVE with ONE-BAR MUSIC HIGHLIGHT EXAMPLES, and an ESSAY providing background about the opera and its composer, analysis, and insightful commentary.
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Burton D. Fisher is a former opera conductor who studied at the Mannes and Juilliard schools. He is currently the author-publisher of over 130 books about opera: Opera Classics Library Series; Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series; Opera Journeys Libretto Series; the Puccini Companion: the Glorious Dozen; and the popular text adopted by many colleges and universities, A History of Opera: Milestones and Metamorphoses. He is principal lecturer for the Opera Journeys Lecture Series at Florida International University, a commissioned author for Season Opera guides and Program Notes for regional opera companies, a translator of librettos for record producers (Sony-BMG),and a frequent opera commentator on National Public Radio.
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Der Rosenkavalier is a romantic comedy in which a thirty-two year old woman, the Princess von Werdenberg, known as the Marschallin, the wife of the old Field Marshal, sends her seventeen-year old lover, Count Octavian Rofrano, as the Rose-Bearer to assist in the wedding of her boorish cousin, Baron Ochs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Der Rosenkavalier is a romantic comedy in which a thirty-two year old woman, the Princess von Werdenberg, known as the Marschallin, the wife of the old Field Marshal, sends her seventeen-year old lover, Count Octavian Rofrano, as the Rose-Bearer to assist in the wedding of her boorish cousin, Baron Ochs. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Der Rosenkavalier, Baron Ochs, Count Octavian Rofrano, Die Schweigsame Frau, Sophie von Faninal New!
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This book cites 5
books:
- Der Rosenkavalier: English National Opera Guide 8 (English National Opera Guides) by R. Strauss on 9 pages
- Ein Heldenleben: Tone Poem for Orchestra, Op. 40 (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Richard Strauss on page 19
- Studies in Hysteria (Penguin Classics) by Sigmund Freud on page 24
- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 24
- Also Sprach Zarathustra (German Edition) by Friedrich Nietzsche on page 19
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